Workers on arrival : Black labor in the making of America /

"From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trotter, Joe William, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Temas:
Working class African Americans > History.
African Americans > Employment > History.
Travailleurs noirs américains > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Travail > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > General.
African Americans > Employment
Working class African Americans
1619.
african american culture.
africans.
american century.
assets.
black lives matter.
black poor.
black urban communities.
black working class.
consumers.
dynamic history.
economic growth.
employment.
health.
housing.
industrial growth.
industrial order.
lethal police community relations.
liabilities.
making of america.
new history.
perceptions.
poverty.
producers.
racial conflict.
social conflict.
transatlantic slave trade.
virginia.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : Foregrounding the Black worker
  • Preindustrial beginnings. Genesis of the Black working class
  • Building the early community
  • Prelude to the modern age
  • The twentieth century. The industrial working class
  • African American workers organize
  • Demolition of the old Jim Crow order
  • Demise of the industrial working class
  • Epilogue : Facing the new global capitalist economy
  • Appendix : Interpreting the African American working-class experience, an essay on sources.

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