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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]
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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.