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

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.
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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.