The Black worker : race, labor, and civil rights since emancipation /
The Black worker : race, labor, and civil rights since emancipation /
edited by Eric Arnesen.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
- 319 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Sweet dreams of freedom" : freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina / The quicksands of economic insecurity : African Americans, strikebreaking, and labor activism in the industrial era / "Work that body" : African American women, work, and leisure in Atlanta and the New South / Industrial sentinels confront the "rabid faction" : Black elites, Black workers, and the labor question in the Jim Crow South / "We must live anyhow" : African American women and sex work in Chicago, 1880-1900 / The great war, Black workers, and the rise and fall of the NAACP in the South / The organizing tradition among African American plantation workers in the Arkansas Delta in the age of Jim Crow / Mobilizing Black Chicago : the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and community organizing, 1925-35 / Opportunities found and lost : labor, radicals, and the early rights movement / "Simple truths of democracy" : African Americans and organized labor in the post-World War II South / Managing discontent : the life and career of Leamon Hood, Black public employee union activist / Leslie A. Schwalm -- Eric Arnesen -- Tera W. Hunter -- Brian Kelly -- Cynthia M. Blair -- Steven A. Reich -- Nan Elizabeth Woodruff -- Beth Tompkins Bates -- Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein -- William Powell Jones -- Joseph A. McCartin.
0252031458 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252031458 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252073800 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780252073809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006025173
GBA6A2002 bnb
013618428 Uk
African Americans--Employment--History.
Discrimination in employment--History.--United States
Labor--History.--United States
Race discrimination--History.--United States
United States--Race relations.
HD8081.A65 / B57 2007
331.6/396073
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Sweet dreams of freedom" : freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina / The quicksands of economic insecurity : African Americans, strikebreaking, and labor activism in the industrial era / "Work that body" : African American women, work, and leisure in Atlanta and the New South / Industrial sentinels confront the "rabid faction" : Black elites, Black workers, and the labor question in the Jim Crow South / "We must live anyhow" : African American women and sex work in Chicago, 1880-1900 / The great war, Black workers, and the rise and fall of the NAACP in the South / The organizing tradition among African American plantation workers in the Arkansas Delta in the age of Jim Crow / Mobilizing Black Chicago : the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and community organizing, 1925-35 / Opportunities found and lost : labor, radicals, and the early rights movement / "Simple truths of democracy" : African Americans and organized labor in the post-World War II South / Managing discontent : the life and career of Leamon Hood, Black public employee union activist / Leslie A. Schwalm -- Eric Arnesen -- Tera W. Hunter -- Brian Kelly -- Cynthia M. Blair -- Steven A. Reich -- Nan Elizabeth Woodruff -- Beth Tompkins Bates -- Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein -- William Powell Jones -- Joseph A. McCartin.
0252031458 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252031458 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252073800 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780252073809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006025173
GBA6A2002 bnb
013618428 Uk
African Americans--Employment--History.
Discrimination in employment--History.--United States
Labor--History.--United States
Race discrimination--History.--United States
United States--Race relations.
HD8081.A65 / B57 2007
331.6/396073