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1994

Inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame. Becomes involved in trying to form a labor party in the United States. Labor Party Advocates (LPA) formed. Opposes NAFTA and the continuing loss of jobs to overseas plants and factories.

1995

Interviewed by Studs Terkel for his book Coming of Age; supports Jack Kevorkian.

Dies at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in October at eighty-two years of age.

Notes

Preface

1. Joseph H. Parks, Felix Grundy: Champion of Democracy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1940), xii.

2. John P. Diggins, The American Left in the Twentieth Century (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1973), 108.

3. Fred Feldman, “Some Historical Background to the 1939–40 Struggle in the SWP,” in Background to “The Struggle for a Proletarian Party,” ed. George Clarke, James P. Cannon, and Leon Trotsky (New York: Pathfinder, 1979), 4.

4. Ibid., 6.

5. Arlie Russell Hochschild, “A Generation Without Public Passion,” Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 2001, 62.

6. “Labor Dips in Private Sector,” Bowling Green Daily News (Bowling Green, Ky.), Jan. 21, 2001.

7. Carlton Jackson, Hounds of the Road: A History of the Greyhound Bus Company, rev. ed. (Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 2001), 189.

8. Carlton Jackson, J. I. Rodale: Apostle of Nonconformity (New York: Pyramid, 1974), 19.

An Introduction

1. Dorothy Sue Cobble, “Recapturing Working-Class Feminism: Union Women in the Postwar Era,” in Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945–1960, ed. Joanne Meyerowitz (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1994), 58.

2. Joanne Meyerowitz, introduction, Not June Cleaver, 6.

3. Sherna Berger Gluck, Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change (Boston: Twayne, 1987), 7.

4. Ibid., 8.

5. John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (Chicago: Ivan Dee, 1996), 7.

6. Nancy A. Naples, Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty (New York: Routledge, 1998), 114.

7. Sidney Fine, Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936–1937 (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1969), 200. Also quoted in Philip S. Foner, Women and the American Labor Movement: From World War I to the Present (New York: Free Press, 1980), 305.

8. Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, eds., Voices of a People’s History of the United States (New York: Seven Stories, 2004), 346.

1. Genesis of a Revolutionary

1. Harold Meyerson, “The Women Just Came Out of Their Homes . . .,” Dissent (Fall 1985): 21, 23. An interview with Genora Dollinger on May 11, 1986.

2. Nan Enstad, “Fashioning Political Identities: Cultural Studies and the Historical Construction of Political Subjects,” American Quarterly 50.4 (Dec. 1998): 745.

3. Kevin Boyle, review of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945, by Elizabeth Faue, Journal of Urban History 23.1 (Nov. 1996): 120–25.

4. Meyerson, “Women,” 465.

5. Columbia Encyclopedia, 5th ed., s.v. “Flint, Michigan.” For further discussions of Flint and its “working class,” see Ronald Edsforth, Class, Conflict, and Cultural Consensus (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1987), 79–84, 87–88, 95–96.

6. Genora Johnson Dollinger, interview with Sherna Berger Gluck, University of Michigan, 1 (hereafter cited as Gluck interview). Gluck conducted a series of eight interviews with Genora between May 21, 1976, and April 28, 1977.

7. Genora to Jack Johnson, Apr. 23, 1958, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

8. Gluck interview, 16

9. Myerson, “Women,” 464.

10. Casey Henry Waite to Genora, Jan. 3, 1992, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

11. Gluck interview, 10.

12. Sol Dollinger, “The Formative Years: Memories of Conversations with Genora,” unpublished essay, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles, 9.

13. Gluck interview, 4.

14. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 7.

15. Sol Dollinger to the author, June 29, 1999.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Gluck interview,