1960s: Could a white male 18-year-old American really get a union factory job with good benefits just by more-or-less showing up at the factory in a suit with his HS diploma in hand?

by Kufat

Edit: I'm not sure why this is flaired with the weekly theme of diplomacy; I didn't select that flair during submission and I don't have an option to remove it, AFAICT.

Edit edit: Oh. "Diploma." Ha!

Return of the son of edit: I'm gonna leave those edits up even though a mod fixed the flair, for the sake of the historical record.

Georgy_K_Zhukov

Althouh I know you know, as people may find this via search, linking the later reask of the question which did get answered!