For Jobs and Freedom (eBook)

Race and Labor in America Since 1865

Robert H. Zieger (Autor)

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2014
312 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-4664-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Work has always been central to the African American experience. Whether as slaves or freedmen, African Americans have struggled to gain economic opportunity. For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 analyzes the position of African American workers in the U.S. economy and social order over the past century and a half. This comprehensive study focuses on black workers' efforts to gain equal rights in the workplace and deals extensively with organized labor's complex and tumultuous relationship with African Americans. Highlighting the problems and opportunities that have characterized efforts to build biracial unions and forge a strong labor−civil rights political coalition, it is an authoritative treatment on the subject of race and labor in modern America.

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The definitive collection of speeches and writings by the labor leader, civil rights activist and founder of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.In 1925, A. Philip Randolph became the first president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, America's first majority-Black labor union. It was a major achievement in a life dedicated to the causes of civil and workers' rights. A leading voice in the struggle for social justice, his powerful words served as a bridge between African Americans and the labor movement.This volume documents Randolph's life and work through his own writings. It includes more than seventy published and unpublished pieces drawn from libraries, manuscript collections, and newspapers. The book is organized thematically around Randolph's most significant activities: dismantling workplace inequality, expanding civil rights, confronting racial segregation, and building international coalitions.The editors provide a detailed biographical essay that helps to situate the speeches and writings collected in the book. In the absence of an autobiography, this volume offers the best available presentation of Randolph's ideas and arguments in his own words.

Autor

lt;P>Robert H. Zieger, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Florida, is the author of several books, including American Workers, American Unions, The CIO:1935--1950 and John L. Lewis: Labor Leader.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: African American History • African Americans • Civil Rights • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Equality • Labor Movement • Politics • Race relations • Racism • reconstruction era • Title VII • Unions • us history • workplace discrimination
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-4664-X / 081314664X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-4664-5 / 9780813146645