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The Black Worker : The Negro and the Labor Movement / Abram L. Harris, Sterling D. Spero.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in American Negro LifePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1959]Copyright date: ©1959Description: 1 online resource (510 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231931441
  • 9780231892230
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface to the Atheneum Edition -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. The Heritage of Slavery -- 1.The Slave Regime: Competition Between Negro and White Labor -- 2. The Aftermath of Slavery -- Part II. The Negro Worker and the Rise of Trade Unionism -- 3. Industrial Brotherhood and Industrial Education -- 4. Craft Unionism and Exclusion -- 5. The Official Position of the American Federation of Labor -- 6. Independent Negro Unionism -- 7. Strike Breaking and Race Consciousness -- Part III. The Negro as an Industrial Reserve -- 8. Tapping The Negro Industrial Reserve -- 9. The Negro Longshoreman -- 10. The Negro in the Coalmines -- 11. The Negro and the Unionization of Steel -- 12. The Negro in the Stockyards -- 13. The Negro on the Railroads -- Part IV. Industrial Unionism and Labor Solidarity -- 14. Radical and Industrial Unionism -- 15. The Negro and the I. W. W. -- 16. The Negro and the Garment and Textile Unions -- 17. The Negro and the United Mine Workers -- Part V. Negro Labor Since the War -- 18. The “New” Negro and Post-War Unrest -- 19. Socialism, Communism, and the Negro -- 20. The Pullman Porters -- 21. The Negro Community and the Labor Movement -- Appendices -- I. The Knights of Labor -- II. The Industrial Reserve in Coal Mining -- III. The Plumbers and Negro Exclusion -- IV. Public Licensing as a Method of Eliminating Negro Locomotive Firemen -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Describes and analyzes the results of a study of the American labor movement comparing the working class to the black minority. Begins with the history of slavery and explores its long term effects of work in mines, steel, stockyards, railroads and other fields.
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Frontmatter -- Preface to the Atheneum Edition -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. The Heritage of Slavery -- 1.The Slave Regime: Competition Between Negro and White Labor -- 2. The Aftermath of Slavery -- Part II. The Negro Worker and the Rise of Trade Unionism -- 3. Industrial Brotherhood and Industrial Education -- 4. Craft Unionism and Exclusion -- 5. The Official Position of the American Federation of Labor -- 6. Independent Negro Unionism -- 7. Strike Breaking and Race Consciousness -- Part III. The Negro as an Industrial Reserve -- 8. Tapping The Negro Industrial Reserve -- 9. The Negro Longshoreman -- 10. The Negro in the Coalmines -- 11. The Negro and the Unionization of Steel -- 12. The Negro in the Stockyards -- 13. The Negro on the Railroads -- Part IV. Industrial Unionism and Labor Solidarity -- 14. Radical and Industrial Unionism -- 15. The Negro and the I. W. W. -- 16. The Negro and the Garment and Textile Unions -- 17. The Negro and the United Mine Workers -- Part V. Negro Labor Since the War -- 18. The “New” Negro and Post-War Unrest -- 19. Socialism, Communism, and the Negro -- 20. The Pullman Porters -- 21. The Negro Community and the Labor Movement -- Appendices -- I. The Knights of Labor -- II. The Industrial Reserve in Coal Mining -- III. The Plumbers and Negro Exclusion -- IV. Public Licensing as a Method of Eliminating Negro Locomotive Firemen -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index

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Describes and analyzes the results of a study of the American labor movement comparing the working class to the black minority. Begins with the history of slavery and explores its long term effects of work in mines, steel, stockyards, railroads and other fields.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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