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Class, race, and worker insurgency : the League of Revolutionary Black Workers / James A. Geschwender.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geschwender, James A., 1933-
- Series:
- II44 aThe Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series in sociology.
- Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
- The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- League of Revolutionary Black Workers--History.
- League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
- History.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Detroit (Mich.)--Riot, 1967.
- African American labor union members--United States.
- African American labor union members.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977.
- Contents:
- 1 Sociology and the dialectics of class and race
- Part I Historical Context
- 2 Black workers, the auto industry and the UAW
- 3 Detroit: evolution of a black industrial city
- Part II The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
- 4 The birth of the League
- 5 Union electoral politics
- 6 Ideology
- 7 League organisational activities
- 8 The League splits and dies
- 9 Why was the League initially so successful?
- 10 Why did the League die?
- Part III The Present and the Future
- 11 Insurrectionary potential remains
- 12 The meaning of it all.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521215846 :
- 0521291917
- OCLC:
- 2967738
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