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The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present ; v. 4 |
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Black worker ; v. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The American Federal of Labor and the Black worker -- The Pullman porters, the railroad brotherhoods, and the Black worker, 1886-1902 -- The United Mine Workers of America and the Black worker -- Black coal miners and the issue of strikebreaking -- Along the color line : trade union and the Black worker at the turn of the twentieth century -- Contemporary assessments. |
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PDF (JSTOR, viewed September 3, 2019). |
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Open access. |
| Summary |
"The fourth volume concerns itself primarily with the robust debate within the AFL over race and the inclusion of Black workers. The documents show just how racially exclusionary were the practices of AFL-affiliated unions. If Gomperism is proven limited in such accounts, then Black worker organizing and militancy, by contrast, is shown to play a decisive role. Key turn-of-the-century strikes, for example, the New Orleans General Strike of 1892 and the Galveston Longshoreman Strike of 1898, are depicted through local and national newspaper coverage. Documents about the United Mine Workers and their unique practice of including Black workers, Black coal miners and the debate around Black strikebreaking, as well as writings by labor leaders Albion W. Tourgee, Ignatius Donnelly, and Du Bois (in this case an excerpt from his important study The Philadelphia Negro), round out the list"--From foreword. |
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American Federation of Labor.
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United Mine Workers of America.
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American Federation of Labor
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United Mine Workers of America
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African Americans -- Employment.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States.
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Noirs américains -- Travail.
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Noirs américains -- Conditions économiques.
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États-Unis -- Relations raciales.
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Travailleurs des chemins de fer -- Syndicats -- États-Unis.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions
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African Americans -- Employment
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Race relations
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Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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Labor studies Discrimination in labor unions Racism in labor unions |
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primary sources.
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Sources
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Primary sources.
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Sources.
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| Added Author |
Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994, editor.
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Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781439917725 (electronic bk.) |
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1439917728 (electronic bk.) |
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