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Divided we stand : American workers and the struggle for Black equality /

"Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society - above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on longshoremen in the ports of New York, New Orleans, and Los Ang...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Bruce, 1940-2022
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "Something in the 'atmosphere' of America"
  • pt. 1. Longshoremen
  • The logic and limits of solidarity, 1850s-1920s
  • New York: "They ... helped to create themselves out of what they found around them"
  • Waterfront unionism and "race solidarity": from the Crescent City to the City of Angels
  • pt. 2. Steelworkers
  • Ethnicity and race in steel's nonunion era
  • "Regardless of creed, color, or nationality": steelworkers and civil rights (I)
  • "We are determined to secure justice now": steelworkers and civil rights (II)
  • "The steel was hot, the jobs were dirty, and it was war": class, race, and working-class agency in Youngstown
  • Epilogue: "Other energies, other dreams": toward a new labor movement.