| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
543 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-528) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I : Insubordinates : servants and slaves in a militarized age. Places of labor's "hard usage" in the South before slavery -- Memory and misery : white servants and the origins of slavery in the South -- The work of insurrection : black and white labor in the eigteenth-century South -- "Domestik enemies" : bound laborers in New England and the Middle Colonies, 1620-1776 -- The emergence of free labor, fettered in the North -- American work : a photo essay -- Part II : Workers and overworkers : black and white labor in the era of slavery. Black and white hands in a slaveholders' republic, 1790-1860 -- The racial politics of Southern labor in peacetime and war, 1820-1870 -- White men "in a tight place" : black poverty and black protest in the antebellum North -- White citizens and black denizens : workers in the North during the era of the Civil War. |
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Part III : The rise and decline of the racialized machine : technological and political change in the workplace. The modernization of prejudice : economic change and the social division of labor, 1870-1930 -- Can you see a tomorrow there? industrial transformation and Federal civil rights legislation, 1929-1978 -- Industrial devolution and the persistence of the "race watch" at the end of the twentieth century -- Families, fraternities, and sites of diversity : affirmative action in historical perspective. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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African Americans -- Employment -- History.
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Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| ISBN |
0393045617 |
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