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A renegade union : interracial organizing and labor radicalism / Lisa Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich.
- Series:
- Working class in American history.
- The working class in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Labor unions.
- African American labor union members--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- African American labor union members.
- African Americans--Employment--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Minorities--Employment--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Minorities.
- Discrimination in employment--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Lisa Phillips presents a distinctive study of District 65 and its efforts to secure economic equality for minority workers in sales and processing jobs in small, low-end shops and warehouses throughout the city. Phillips shows how organizers fought tirelessly to achieve better hours and higher wages for unskilled, unrepresented workers and to re-value their work, the result of an economy inclining toward fewer manufacturing jobs and more low wage service and processing jobs.
- Contents:
- Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East side
- Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions
- "Like a scab over an infected sore": full and fair employment during and after World War II
- Attacked from the left and the right: community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War
- A third Labor Federation? The Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (DPO)
- Community organizing under the AFL-CIO umbrella.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283901680
- 1283901684
- 9780252094507
- 0252094506
- OCLC:
- 822894361
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