| The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation Contributor(s): Arnesen, Eric (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0252031458 ISBN-13: 9780252031458 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: Long before the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s made a frontal assault on the reigning segregationist order, African American workers had to struggle against both their employers and fellow white workers. Because their efforts to secure their workplace rights pitted them against the broader structures of racial oppression, their activism constituted nothing less than a form of civil rights struggle. Uniting the latest scholarship on race, labor, and civil rights, The Black Worker aims to establish the richness of the African American working-class experience, and the indisputable role of black workers in shaping the politics and history of labor and race in the United States. To capture the complexity of African Americans' experiences in the workplace, this reader examines workers engaged in a wide array of jobs, including sharecropping, coal mining, domestic service, longshoring, automobile manufacturing, tobacco processing, railroading, prostitution, lumbering, and municipal employment. The essays' subjects include black migration, strikebreaking, black conservatism, gender, and the multiple forms of employment discrimination in the South and North. Other contributions deal explicitly with state policy and black workers during the transition from slavery to freedom, World Wars I and II, and the 1960s. The variety of challenges made by these workers, both quiet and overt, served as clear reminders to the supporters of white supremacy that, despite their best efforts through violence, fraud, and the law, as long as they insisted on racial inequality, the "race question" would never be fully resolved. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: 331.639 |
| LCCN: 2006025173 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.25" W x 9.09" (1.23 lbs) 319 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Black History - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Aiming to establish the richness of the African American working-class experience, and the indisputable role of black workers in shaping the politics and history of labour and race in the US, this reader examines workers engaged in an array of jobs, including sharecropping, domestic service, longshoring, and more. |