For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865
ISBN-10
0813192595
ISBN-13
9780813192598
Series
For Jobs and Freedom
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
2010-01-01
Author
Robert H. Zieger

Description

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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