For jobs and freedom : race and labor in America since 1865
"For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands. Award-winning historian Robert H. Zieger asserts that the promise of jobs was similar to the forty-acres-and-a-mule restitution pledged to African Americans during the Reconstruction era. The inconsistencies between rhetoric and action encouraged workers, both men and women, to organize themselves into unions to fight against unfair hiring practices and workplace discrimination." "Though racism and unfair hiring practices still exist today, motivated individuals and leaders of the labor movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries laid the groundwork for better working conditions and greater employment opportunities. Unions, with some sixteen million members currently in their ranks, continue to protect workers against discrimination in the expanding economy. For Jobs and Freedom is the first authoritative treatment of the race and labor movement in more than two decades, and Zieger's comprehensive study will be standard reading on the subject for years to come."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, ©2007
History
x, 276 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813124605, 9780813192598, 9780813172705, 0813124603, 0813192595, 0813172705
86117595
The first fruits of freedom
Into the new century
Great war, great migration
Race and labor in depression and war
Race and labor in the postwar world
Affirmative action and labor action
Back to the future
Includes index
Table of contents Kostenfrei
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