A matter of moral justice : Black women laundry workers and the fight for justice /

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"This book addresses how a group of low-wage and primarily African American women workers found an industrial and interracial union in the 1930s and why their gender and race interests were subordinated within that union in the 1940s. Carson argues that race and gender explain, at every turn, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carson, Jenny, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Colección:The working class in American history
Temas:
1900-1999
African American laundresses > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Laundry workers > Labor unions > United States > History > 20th century.
Blanchisseurs et teinturiers > Syndicats > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Laundry workers > Labor unions.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "We Win a Place in Industry": Black Women and the Birth of the Power Laundry Industry
  • Chapter 2. A Miniature Hell: Working in a Power Laundry
  • Chapter 3. The 1912 Uprising of New York City's Laundry Workers
  • Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall of Local 284: Black Women Laundry Workers' Activism in the Era of the Great Migration
  • Chapter 5. "It Was Up to All of Us to Fight": Communist Laundry Organizing during the Great Depression
  • Chapter 6. "Aristocrats of the Movement": The Uprising of Brooklyn's Laundry Workers
  • Chapter 7. "It Was Like the Salvation": New York City's Laundry Workers Join the CIO
  • Chapter 8. The "Democratic Initiative": Fighting for Control of the Laundry Workers Joint Board
  • Chapter 9. "Putting Democracy into Action": The Laundry Workers' Double V Campaign
  • Chapter 10. "Everybody's Libber": The Laundry Workers' Postwar Civil Rights Unionism
  • Chapter 11. "We're Just Not Ready Yet": The Ousting of Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson from the Laundry Workers Joint Board
  • Epilogue: Building a Democratic Initiative in the Twenty-First Century
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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