Bridging the gap between African-American and labor history, Waterfront of New Orleans focuses on ten thousand black and white riverfront workers and class and race relations from the turbulent Civil War and Reconstruction years to the early twentieth century's age of segregation.
Bridging the gap between African-American and labor history, Waterfront of New Orleans focuses on ten thousand black and white riverfront workers and ...
Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This significant new collection emphatically says No Touching on such subjects as migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender, these thirteen essays by former students of David Montgomery -- a preeminent leader in labor circles as well as in academia -- demonstrate the sheer diversity of the field today.
Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This significant new collection emphatically says No Touching on such subjects as migra...
Long before the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s made a frontal assault on the reigning segregationist order, African American workers had to struggle against both their employers and fellow white workers. Because their efforts to secure their workplace rights pitted them against the broader structures of racial oppression, their activism constituted nothing less than a form of civil rights struggle. Uniting the latest scholarship on race, labor, and civil rights, The Black Worker aims to establish the richness of the African American working-class experience, and the...
Long before the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s made a frontal assault on the reigning segregationist order, African American work...
An eye-opening first-hand account of life in a WWII shipyard from a woman's perspective
In 1942, Katherine Archibald, a graduate student at Berkeley, left the halls of academe to spend two years working in a nearby Oakland shipyard. She arrived with a host of preconceptions about the American working class, race relations and the prospect for their improvement, and wartime unity. Her experience working in a shipyard where women were seen as intruders, where "Okies" and black migrants from the South were regarded with barely-disguised hatred, and where trade unions preferred...
An eye-opening first-hand account of life in a WWII shipyard from a woman's perspective
The Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History provides sweeping coverage of US labor history. Containing over 650 entries, the Encyclopedia encompasses labor history from the colonial era to the present. Articles focus on states, regions, periods, economic sectors and occupations, race-relations, ethnicity, and religion, concepts and developments in labor economics, environmentalism, globalization, legal history, trade unions, strikes, organizations, individuals, management relations, and government agencies and...
A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title
The Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History provides sweeping coverage of US labor hist...
From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution--the story of African Americans on the railroad.
African Americans have been a part of the railroad from its inception, but today they are largely remembered as Pullman porters and track layers. The real history is far richer, a tale of endless struggle, perseverance, and partial victory. In a sweeping narrative, Arnesen re-creates the...
From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagina...
