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The ordeal of the jungle : race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1903-1922 / David Bates.
Lippincott Library HD6519.C442 B38 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bates, David, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council--History--20th century.
- Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council.
- African Americans--Employment--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Labor movement.
- History.
- Working class.
- Social conditions.
- African Americans--Employment.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919.
- Working class--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
- Labor movement--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Race relations.
- Working class--Social conditions.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1903-1922
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- ""The Ordeal of the Jungle" boldly revises previous scholarship regarding Chicago's labor movement in the World war I era. It examines the failures of the Chicago Federation of Labor to build a progressive, interracial organization. Following failed strikes and a tumultuous time, the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 shattered the CFL's tenuous interracial alliance."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: race and American labor history
- "A deep, dark plot": race in the chicago labor movement, 1894-1905
- "Every Negro can make a fight": race and the CFL campaign, 1916-1921
- "Demoralized by its own weaknesses": the structural limits of federated unionism, 1916-1921
- "Between two fires": white and black workers confront interracial unionism, 1916-1921
- "Patience is no longer a virtue": the CFL and the Chicago Race Riot of 1919
- "Boring from within": race and the decline of the CFL, 1919-1922
- Conclusion: the past, present, and future of interracial unionism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809337446
- 0809337444
- OCLC:
- 1051635842
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