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Author Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich.

Title A renegade union [electronic resource] : interracial organizing and labor radicalism / Lisa Phillips.

Imprint Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 231 p. : ill.
Series The working class in American history
Working class in American history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East side -- Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions -- "Like a scab over an infected sore": full and fair employment during and after World War II -- Attacked from the left and the right: community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War -- A third Labor Federation? The Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (DPO) -- Community organizing under the AFL-CIO umbrella.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
African American labor union members -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Minorities -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780252037320 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252094507 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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