The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation
- ISBN-10
- 0252031458
- ISBN-13
- 9780252031458
- Category
- Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Eric Arnesen
Description
Aiming to establish the richness of the African American working-class experience, and the indisputable role of black workers in shaping the politics and history of labour and race in the US, this reader examines workers engaged in an array of jobs, including sharecropping, domestic service, longshoring, and more.
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- 1978
- 464 pages
- Paperback
- Temple University Press
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