Black and Blue (eBook)

African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party

Paul Frymer (Autor)

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2011
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3726-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Paul Frymer is associate professor of politics and director of the Legal Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America (Princeton).

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In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about how the Democratic Party unintentionally sowed the seeds of labor's decline. The labor and civil rights movements are the cornerstones of the Democratic Party, but for much of the twentieth century these movements worked independently of one another. Paul Frymer argues that as Democrats passed separate legislation to promote labor rights and racial equality they split the issues of class and race into two sets of institutions, neither of which had enough authority to integrate the labor movement. From this division, the courts became the leading enforcers of workplace civil rights, threatening unions with bankruptcy if they resisted integration. The courts' previously unappreciated power, however, was also a problem: in diversifying unions, judges and lawyers enfeebled them financially, thus democratizing through destruction. Sharply delineating the double-edged sword of state and legal power, Black and Blue chronicles an achievement that was as problematic as it was remarkable, and that demonstrates the deficiencies of race- and class-based understandings of labor, equality, and power in America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 4 halftones. 1 table.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • Affirmative Action • African Americans • American Federation of Labor • Anti-Discrimination Law • A. Philip Randolph • Apprenticeship • Bargaining unit • Bayard Rustin • Brown v. Board of Education • Civil Rights Act • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Class action • Closed shop • Coalition of Black Trade Unionists • collective bargaining • communism • Consideration • court order • Criticism • David Roediger • Democracy • Discrimination • Duty of fair representation • Economic Inequality • Economic Power • Election • Employment • employment discrimination • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Equal Protection Clause • Fair Employment Practice Committee • Fair Labor Standards Act • Federal government of the United States • federal judge • government agency • Gunnar Myrdal • hatred • Herbert Hill (labor director) • injunction • Institution • Institutional Racism • International Brotherhood of Teamsters • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Karen Orren • laborer • Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 • labor relations • labour law • Labour movement • Lawsuit • lawyer • Legislation • Legislative history • Legislator • Legislature • Local union • lochner era • minority group • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Labor Relations Act • National Labor Relations Board • National Urban League • plaintiff • Policy • political agenda • Politician • Politics • politics of the united states • Precedent • Provision (contracting) • Racial Equality • racial hierarchy • Racism • Railway Labor Act • Regulatory Agency • Representative Democracy • resentment • seniority • Social Inequality • Southern Democrats • Statute • Strikebreaker • Theda Skocpol • Trade Union • Tyranny of The Majority • Unfair labor practice • Union representative • Union shop • United Automobile Workers • United States Department of Labor • Voting • Walter Reuther • W. E. B. Du Bois • welfare • Workforce • Working Class • workplace • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3726-X / 140083726X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3726-7 / 9781400837267