The Black Worker : The Negro and the Labor Movement / Abram L. Harris, Sterling D. Spero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spero, Sterling D., author.

Harris, Abram L., author.

Contributor:

Gutman, Herbert G.

Series:

Studies in American Negro Life

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1959]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Describes and analyzes the results of a study of the American labor movement comparing the working class to the black minority. Begins with the history of slavery and explores its long term effects of work in mines, steel, stockyards, railroads and other fields.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to the Atheneum Edition

Preface

Contents

Part I. The Heritage of Slavery

1.The Slave Regime: Competition Between Negro and White Labor

2. The Aftermath of Slavery

Part II. The Negro Worker and the Rise of Trade Unionism

3. Industrial Brotherhood and Industrial Education

4. Craft Unionism and Exclusion

5. The Official Position of the American Federation of Labor

6. Independent Negro Unionism

7. Strike Breaking and Race Consciousness

Part III. The Negro as an Industrial Reserve

8. Tapping The Negro Industrial Reserve

9. The Negro Longshoreman

10. The Negro in the Coalmines

11. The Negro and the Unionization of Steel

12. The Negro in the Stockyards

13. The Negro on the Railroads

Part IV. Industrial Unionism and Labor Solidarity

14. Radical and Industrial Unionism

15. The Negro and the I. W. W.

16. The Negro and the Garment and Textile Unions

17. The Negro and the United Mine Workers

Part V. Negro Labor Since the War

18. The "New" Negro and Post-War Unrest

19. Socialism, Communism, and the Negro

20. The Pullman Porters

21. The Negro Community and the Labor Movement

Appendices

I. The Knights of Labor

II. The Industrial Reserve in Coal Mining

III. The Plumbers and Negro Exclusion

IV. Public Licensing as a Method of Eliminating Negro Locomotive Firemen

Bibliography of Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89223-3

OCLC:

1100450906