Iron and steel : class, race, and community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920 / Henry M. McKiven, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKiven, Henry M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American iron and steel workers--Alabama--Birmingham--History.

African American iron and steel workers.

Iron and steel workers--Alabama--Birmingham--History.

Iron and steel workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition

Other Title:

Class, race, and community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighborhood politics. According to McKiven, the white men who moved to Birmingham soon after its founding to take jobs as skilled iron workers shared a free labor ideology that emphasized opportunity and equality between white employees and management at the expense of less skilled black labor

Contents:

1. The Creation of Birmingham and the Problem of Labor

2. Skilled Work, White Workers

3. Unskilled Work, Black Workers

4. Life Away from Work, 1880-1900

5. Workers and Politics, 1880-1894

6. The Open Shop City

7. Remaking the Working Class

8. Life Away from Work, 1900-1920

9. Workers and Politics, 1894-1920.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-218) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9798890866349

9780807879719

0807879711

9781469603711

1469603713

OCLC:

831121399