The Black worker : race, labor, and civil rights since emancipation

The Black worker : race, labor, and civil rights since emancipation / edited by Eric Arnesen.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Arnesen, Eric
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
Subjects:
African Americans > Employment > History.
Discrimination in employment > United States > History.
Labor > United States > History.
Race discrimination > United States > History.
United States > Race relations.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • "Sweet dreams of freedom" : freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina / Leslie A. Schwalm
  • The quicksands of economic insecurity : African Americans, strikebreaking, and labor activism in the industrial era / Eric Arnesen
  • "Work that body" : African American women, work, and leisure in Atlanta and the New South / Tera W. Hunter
  • Industrial sentinels confront the "rabid faction" : Black elites, Black workers, and the labor question in the Jim Crow South / Brian Kelly
  • "We must live anyhow" : African American women and sex work in Chicago, 1880-1900 / Cynthia M. Blair
  • The great war, Black workers, and the rise and fall of the NAACP in the South / Steven A. Reich
  • The organizing tradition among African American plantation workers in the Arkansas Delta in the age of Jim Crow / Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
  • Mobilizing Black Chicago : the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and community organizing, 1925-35 / Beth Tompkins Bates
  • Opportunities found and lost : labor, radicals, and the early civil rights movement / Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein
  • "Simple truths of democracy" : African Americans and organized labor in the post-World War II South / William Powell Jones
  • Managing discontent : the life and career of Leamon Hood, Black public employee union activist / Joseph A. McCartin.

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