Reuther was on the front lines of one of the bitterest, bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of the American labor movement - the battle to protect workers faced with the growing problems of the new auto assembly lines. The pressure of the line drove men out of the shops in less than a day. In the early years Henry Ford had to hire nine workers for every one he wanted to keep. To get management to meet their demands, the union and Reuther devised a brilliantly simple strategy: they sat down, first at GM, then at Chrysler, and finally at Ford. This is the story of a union and its leader, whose vision of workers' rights changed the way America worked.