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Black unionism in the industrial South / Ernest Obadele-Starks. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Obadele-Starks, Ernest, 1959-
- Series:
- Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American labor union members--History--20th century.
- African American labor union members.
- Race discrimination--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination.
- Equality--Southern States.
- Equality.
- Southern States--Economic conditions.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 103 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Black Unionism in the Industrial South presents the struggles of black workers who fought for equality and unionization in the heyday of Gulf Coast industry. Ernest Obadele-Starks examines the workers' responses to racial and class domination and their creative strategies to reach their goals. Facing public and corporate policies that typically deferred to white workers, blacks banded together to achieve representation in the workplace, form union auxiliaries, charter their own local unions, seal alliances with members of the black middle class, and manipulate the media to benefit their cause."--Jacket.
- "Obadele-Starks eloquently captures these workers' fight and discusses the implications of their struggle on the industrial society of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast today. Students and scholars of American labor history, race relations, and Texas history will find Black Unionism in the Industrial South a valuable scholarly work."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. "A Serious Menace to the White Union Men": The World of the Black Unionist
- Ch. 2. "Fifty-Fifty": Black Longshoremen and the Racial Paradox
- Ch. 3. "Build ... One of Our Own": Railroad Workers Broaden the Struggle
- Ch. 4. Oil Workers and the Fight for Mobility
- Ch. 5. "Free of Company Domination": Steelworkers Look Inward
- Ch. 6. War, Violence, and Shipbuilding
- Ch. 7. Black Unionism and the FEPC.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-37817-7
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