Brotherhoods of color : black railroad workers and the struggle for equality /

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From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution - the story of African Americans on the rail...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arnesen, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002, ©2001.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Temas:
Railroads > United States > Employees > History.
African Americans > Employment > History.
Discrimination in employment > United States > History.
Race discrimination > United States > History.
Travailleurs des chemins de fer > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Travail > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Employment
Discrimination in employment
Race discrimination
Railroads > Employees
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Race in the first century of American railroading
  • Promise and failure in the World War I era
  • The Black wedge of civil rights unionism
  • Independent Black unionism in depression and war
  • The rise of the red caps
  • The politics of fair employment
  • The politics of fair representation
  • Black railroaders in the modern era.

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