Black Americans And Organized Labor
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Black Americans And Organized Labor
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Author : Paul D. Moreno
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2008
Black Americans And Organized Labor written by Paul D. Moreno and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity: White unionists found that race was a convenient basis on which to do what unions do -- control the labor supply. Not racism pure and simple but "the economics of discrimination" explains historic black absence and under-representation in unions. Moreno's sweeping reexamination stretches from the antebellum period to the present, integrating principal figures such as Frederick Douglass and Samuel Gompers, Isaac Myers and Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois and A. Philip Randolph. He traces changing attitudes and practices during the simultaneous black migration to the North and consolidation of organized labor's power, through the confusing and conflicted post-World War II period, during the course of the civil rights movement, and into the era of affirmative action. Maneuvering across a wide span of time and a broad array of issues, Moreno brings remarkable clarity to the question of the importance of race in unions. He impressively weaves together labor, policy, and African American history into a cogent, persuasive revisionist study that cannot be ignored.
Black Unionism In The Industrial South
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Author : Ernest Obadele-Starks
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2000
Black Unionism In The Industrial South written by Ernest Obadele-Starks and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
"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.
Organized Labor And The Black Worker 1619 1981
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Author : Philip S. Foner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-01-02
Organized Labor And The Black Worker 1619 1981 written by Philip S. Foner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-02 with History categories.
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.
For Jobs And Freedom
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Author : Robert H. Zieger
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-04-23
For Jobs And Freedom written by Robert H. Zieger and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-23 with Political Science categories.
Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post–Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African Americans from emancipation to the present have faced the seemingly insurmountable task of erasing pervasive public belief in the inferiority of their race. For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands. Award-winning historian Robert H. Zieger asserts that the promise of jobs was similar to the forty-acres-and-a-mule restitution pledged to African Americans during the Reconstruction era. The inconsistencies between rhetoric and action encouraged workers, both men and women, to organize themselves into unions to fight against unfair hiring practices and workplace discrimination. Though the path proved difficult, unions gradually obtained rights for African American workers with prominent leaders at their fore. In 1925, A. Philip Randolph formed the first black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, to fight against injustices committed by the Pullman Company, an employer of significant numbers of African Americans. The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) emerged in 1935, and its population quickly swelled to include over 500,000 African American workers. The most dramatic success came in the 1960s with the establishment of affirmative action programs, passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Title VII enforcement measures prohibiting employer discrimination based on race. Though racism and unfair hiring practices still exist today, motivated individuals and leaders of the labor movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries laid the groundwork for better conditions and greater opportunities. Unions, with some sixteen million members currently in their ranks, continue to protect workers against discrimination in the expanding economy. For Jobs and Freedom is the first authoritative treatment in more than two decades of the race and labor movement, and Zieger's comprehensive and authoritative book will be standard reading on the subject for years to come.
Organized Labor And The Black Worker 1619 1981
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Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
language : en
Publisher: New York : International Publishers
Release Date : 1982
Organized Labor And The Black Worker 1619 1981 written by Philip Sheldon Foner and has been published by New York : International Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Business & Economics categories.
Black Labor In America
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Author : Milton Cantor
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1969
Black Labor In America written by Milton Cantor and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with History categories.
Collection of essays comprising an historical account of the position of Blacks in the labour force force in the USA, with particular reference to the attitude of the labour movement - covers Southern political leadership and government policy, working conditions of negro rural workers employed in animal production, discrimination and labour disputes, military service mobilisation during the first world war, negro leadership and collective bargaining, trade unionism, etc. References.
African Americans Labor And Society
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Author : Patrick L. Mason
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2001
African Americans Labor And Society written by Patrick L. Mason and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
Over the past twenty-five years, union participation has declined among the nation as whole. Coupled with increasing racial tensions, cutbacks in public programs at the federal, state, and local levels, and a shift in the distribution of wealth, these changes have undermined the standard of living for American workers' families, especially African American families, as they created greater wealth for the American elite. African Americans, Labor, and Society examines these changes, in particular their effects on the entire African American community, and suggests a move toward a more egalitarian future. This collection of essays, written by legal scholars, professional organizers, and economists, suggests integrating civil rights and labor laws to strengthen both anti-discrimination and union-organizing efforts. The volume demonstrates the negative effects for union workers of arbitration agreements that undermine civil rights legislation in the workplace. It also provides a detailed case study of the nature and extent of racial conflict within a major industrial union, and analyzes and suggests policy changes that would increase the political and economic power of American workers as a whole, while aggressively attacking racism in social, economic, and political institutions. African Americans, Labor, and Society presents strategies for creating better opportunities for African Americans through private sector employment that will appeal to legal, union, and labor students and scholars, as well as economists.
Race And Labor Matters In The New U S Economy
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Author : Manning Marable
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2006-05-25
Race And Labor Matters In The New U S Economy written by Manning Marable and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-25 with Social Science categories.
In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved through conflict and collective struggle. The foundation of the class divide in the United States remains, while racial and ethnic segregation, privilege, and domination, and the institution of neoliberalism have become a detriment to all workers.
Black And Blue
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Author : Paul Frymer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-27
Black And Blue written by Paul Frymer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-27 with Political Science categories.
In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about how the Democratic Party unintentionally sowed the seeds of labor's decline. The labor and civil rights movements are the cornerstones of the Democratic Party, but for much of the twentieth century these movements worked independently of one another. Paul Frymer argues that as Democrats passed separate legislation to promote labor rights and racial equality they split the issues of class and race into two sets of institutions, neither of which had enough authority to integrate the labor movement. From this division, the courts became the leading enforcers of workplace civil rights, threatening unions with bankruptcy if they resisted integration. The courts' previously unappreciated power, however, was also a problem: in diversifying unions, judges and lawyers enfeebled them financially, thus democratizing through destruction. Sharply delineating the double-edged sword of state and legal power, Black and Blue chronicles an achievement that was as problematic as it was remarkable, and that demonstrates the deficiencies of race- and class-based understandings of labor, equality, and power in America.
Organized Labor And The Black Worker 1619 1973
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Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Organized Labor And The Black Worker 1619 1973 written by Philip Sheldon Foner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with African American labor union members categories.
