For Jobs and Freedom Race and Labor in America since 1865.

For Jobs and Freedom Race and Labor in America since 1865.

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zieger, Robert H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
JSTOR Open Access Ebooks.
Subjects:
African Americans > Employment > History.
Discrimination in employment > United States > History.
African American labor union members > History.
Labor unions > United States > History.
Race discrimination > United States > History.
Electronic resources (E-books)
United States > Race relations > History.
History.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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Summary: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 ch.
Physical Description:1 online resource (311 pages).
ISBN:9780813146638
0813146631
9780813146645
081314664X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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