The Black worker : race, labor, and civil rights since emancipation / edited by Eric Arnesen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arnesen, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Employment--History.

African Americans.

Discrimination in employment--United States--History.

Discrimination in employment.

Labor--United States--History.

Labor.

History.

African Americans--Employment.

United States.

Race discrimination--United States--History.

Race discrimination.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

319 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

The Black worker : a reader

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]

Contents:

"Sweet dreams of freedom" : freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina / Leslie A. Schwalm

The quicksands of economic insecurity : African Americans, strikebreaking, and labor activism in the industrial era / Eric Arnesen

"Work that body": African American women, work, and leisure in Atlanta and the New South / Tera W. Hunter

Industrial sentinels confront the "rabid faction" : Black elites, Black workers, and the labor question in the Jim Crow South / Brian Kelly

"We must live anyhow" : African American women and sex work in Chicago, 1880-1900 / Cynthia M. Blair

The great war, Black workers, and the rise and fall of the NAACP in the South / Steven A. Reich

The organizing tradition among African American plantation workers in the Arkansas Delta in the age of Jim Crow / Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

Mobilizing Black Chicago : the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and community organizing, 1925-35 / Beth Tompkins Bates

Opportunities found and lost : labor, radicals, and the early rights movement / Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein

"Simple truths of democracy" : African Americans and organized labor in the post-World War II South / William Powell Jones

Managing discontent : the life and career of Leamon Hood, Black public employee union activist / Joseph A. McCartin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252031458

9780252031458

0252073800

9780252073809

OCLC:

70884939