Race and labor matters in the new U.S. economy / edited by Manning Marable, Immanuel Ness, Joseph Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Joseph, 1951-

Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.

Ness, Immanuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--United States.

Labor unions.

Labor movement.

African American labor union members.

United States.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

African American labor union members--United States.

Labor movement--United States.

Minorities--Employment--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Employment.

Physical Description:

vi, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2006]

Summary:

In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality churned out by the capitalist class, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved through conflict and collective struggle. The foundation of the class divide in the United States remains, while racial and ethnic segregation, privilege, and domination, and the institution of neoliberalism have become a detriment to all workers.remains, while racial and ethnic segregation, privilege and domination, and the institution of neoliberal policies are a detriment to all workers.

Contents:

Introduction Race and Labor: The New American Paradigm in a Global Economy / Manning Marable, Immanuel Ness, Joseph Wilson 1

Part I Framing the New Struggle for Racial Labor Justice

1 The Imperative of Black Worker Mobilization in Renewing Organized Labor in the United States / Bill Fletcher Jr. 17

2 Black Leadership and Organized Labor: From Workplace to Community / Manning Marable, Joseph Wilson 27

Part II Race, Labor, and the Community

3 Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement for Building a Worker Rights Movement / Aldon Morris, Dan Clawson 41

4 Labor Against Empire: At Home and Abroad / Robin D. G. Kelley 57

5 Achilles' Heel and the Tortoise: Race and the Labor Movement in the United States of America / Michael Goldfield 71

Part III Race in American Society

6 Organizing Around Work in the Black Community: The Struggle Against Bad Jobs Held by African Americans / Steven Pitts 99

7 "For Working People By Working People": Labor, Race, and the Fight for Trade Union Plaza / Mandi Isaacs Jackson 125

8 Race, Labor, and Urban Community: Negotiating a "New Social Contract" in New Haven / Chris Rhomberg, Louise Simmons 145

9 Race and Privatization and the Working Conditions of Low-wage Health Care Laborers / Immanuel Ness, Roland Zullo 165

10 Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse / Stephen Steinberg 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index.

ISBN:

074254690X

0742546918

OCLC:

62393149

Publisher Number:

9780742546905

9780742546912