Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New HistoryIn Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity: White unionists found that race was a convenient basis on which to do what unions do -- control the labor supply. Not racism pure and simple but "the economics of discrimination" explains historic black absence and under-representation in unions. |
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... Reconstruction to Jim Crow , 1877-1895 41 3 / Blacks and Labor in the Progressive Era , 1900-1920 82 4 / From Progressivism to the New Deal , 1920-1935 137 5 / The New Deal and World War 176 6 / The Civil Rights Era , 1950-1965 220 7 ...
... Reconstruction to Jim Crow , 1877-1895 41 3 / Blacks and Labor in the Progressive Era , 1900-1920 82 4 / From Progressivism to the New Deal , 1920-1935 137 5 / The New Deal and World War 176 6 / The Civil Rights Era , 1950-1965 220 7 ...
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... Reconstruction . The war transformed millions of slaves into free laborers and also caused a great revival of union activity , dormant since the depression of 1837. But it was not until after the war that the nation completed abolition ...
... Reconstruction . The war transformed millions of slaves into free laborers and also caused a great revival of union activity , dormant since the depression of 1837. But it was not until after the war that the nation completed abolition ...
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... Reconstruction , " in Steven Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman , eds . , Audacious Democracy : Labor , Intellec- tuals , and the Social Reconstruction of America ( Boston , 1997 ) . 37. Liberator , 1 Jan. 1831 , in Foner and Shapiro J orf ...
... Reconstruction , " in Steven Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman , eds . , Audacious Democracy : Labor , Intellec- tuals , and the Social Reconstruction of America ( Boston , 1997 ) . 37. Liberator , 1 Jan. 1831 , in Foner and Shapiro J orf ...
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... RECONSTRUCTION AND FREE LABOR After the war , congressional policy and the behavior of the freedmen displayed the dominance of the antislavery , self - ownership definition of free labor . It was clear 52. Herman D. Bloch , “ Labor and ...
... RECONSTRUCTION AND FREE LABOR After the war , congressional policy and the behavior of the freedmen displayed the dominance of the antislavery , self - ownership definition of free labor . It was clear 52. Herman D. Bloch , “ Labor and ...
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... Reconstruction ( Baton Rouge , 1989 ) , 232-35 ; Herman Belz , A New Birth of Freedom : The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights , 1861-66 ( Westport , 1976 ) , 119-27 . 56. Fitzgerald , Union League Movement , 138 ; William Cohen ...
... Reconstruction ( Baton Rouge , 1989 ) , 232-35 ; Herman Belz , A New Birth of Freedom : The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights , 1861-66 ( Westport , 1976 ) , 119-27 . 56. Fitzgerald , Union League Movement , 138 ; William Cohen ...
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3 Blacks and Labor in the Progressive Era 19001920 | 82 |
4 From Progressivism to the New Deal 19201935 | 137 |
5 The New Deal and World War | 176 |
6 The Civil Rights Era 19501965 | 220 |
7 The Affirmative Action Dilemma 1965Present | 259 |
Conclusion | 285 |
Divide and Conquer The Folklore of Socialism | 289 |
Bibliographical Essay | 303 |
Index | 327 |
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Page 72 - Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labor wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South. Casting down your bucket among my people, helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and...
Page 22 - They enact thai all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as Is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Page 138 - The strike became a lawful instrument in a lawful economic struggle or competition between employer and employees as to the share or division between them of the joint product of labor and capital.
Page 90 - We hold up for public execration the conduct of two opposite classes of men: The practice among employers of importing ignorant Negro-American laborers in emergencies, and then affording them neither protection nor permanent employment ; and the practice of labor unions in proscribing and boycotting and oppressing thousands of their fellow-toilers, simply because they are black.
Page 176 - To bring about the effective organization of the working men and women of America regardless of race, creed, color or nationality, and to unite them for common action into labor unions for their mutual aid and protection.
Page 1 - the Caucasians are not going to let their standard of living be destroyed by negroes, Chinamen, Japs, or any others.
Page 17 - James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p.
Page 15 - Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Page 17 - Emancipation, even without deportation, would probably enhance the wages of white labor, and, very surely would not reduce them. Thus, the customary amount of labor would still have to be performed ; the freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and, very probably, for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bring their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it.
Page 36 - Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city.
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