uncle of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose debut feature Roger & Me contains a clip from the strike. In the next year, UAW membership grew from 30,000 to 500,000 members. Employees of other car manufacturers such as Ford joined, as the entire industry was rapidly unionized. As later noted by the BBC, "the strike was heard 'round the world". The GM sit-down strike of 1936–37 was, all in all, the most significant American labor conflict in the 20th century. When the UAW victory in the strike was followed by the capitulation of the United States Steel Corporation to the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, the Financial Observer remarked that "an era of labor-management relations" had come to an end and "a new era" had begun. See also With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, a 1979 documentary film Footnotes Further reading Armstrong, Rudy, The History of UAW Local 659: we make our own history, Flint, Mich., UAW Local 659, 1993. Fine, Sidney. "The General Motors Sit-Down Strike: A Re-examination,"American Historical Review (1965) 70#3 pp. 691–671 in JSTOR at JSTOR McCloud N. Brandi, Solidarity Forever: The Story of the Flint Sit-Down Strike and the Communist Party from the Perspective of the Rank and File Autoworkers, East Tennessee State, May 2012 External links Reuther Library Subject Focus: Remembering the Flint Sit-Down from the Walter P. Reuther Library Audio interviews with workers and other actors in the strike. Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike Baulch, Vivian M.; Zacharias, Patricia (June 23, 1997). "Rearview Mirror: The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes". Detroit, Michigan: Detroit News. (PDF) Walter Linder. "How Industrial Unionism Was Won: The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against GM 1936-37" The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937 - Jeremy Brecher Workers Made History by Sitting Down on Job (LA Times) NPR Planet Money Podcast on the Flint site-down strike 1936 labor disputes and strikes 1937 labor disputes and strikes 1936 in the United States 1937 in the United States Flint, Michigan Labor disputes led by the United Auto Workers 1936 in Michigan 1937 in Michigan Manufacturing industry labor disputes in the United States Labor disputes in Michigan General Motors labor relations Walter Reuther