Iron and steel : class, race, and community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920 /
This study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. It also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighbou...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1995.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. It also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighbourhood politics. According to the author, the white men who moved to Birmingham soon after its founding to take jobs as skilled iron workers shared a free labour ideology that emphasized opportunity and equality between white employees and management at the expense of less skilled black labourers. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780807879719 0807879711 9781469603711 1469603713 |