Like Night and Day

“One of the best available accounts of workplace conflict over the hated 'stretch-out.'”Reviews in American History

“Clark’s use of details provides a sense of immediacy that makes his work a lively presentation that reads in places like a novel.”—South Carolina Review

“Drawing on plant records that rarely become available, Clark reconstructs in extraordinary detail a system of workplace representation that protected workers from the worst excesses of speedup and arbitrary treatment. And he provides an exceptionally interesting explanation of why management turned against that system and, in 1958, broke the union. . . . No one concerned about industrial justice can truly comprehend this struggle without entering the shop-floor world that Clark reveals to us in this fine book.”—David Brody, University of California, Davis