A Renegade Union : Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism /

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Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail clerks, office workers, warehouse worker...

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Main Author: Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Minorities > Employment.
Labor unions.
Discrimination in employment.
African Americans > Employment.
African American labor union members.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Discrimination dans l'emploi > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Minorites > Travail > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Travail > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Syndiques noirs americains > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Syndicats > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Discrimination in employment > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Minorities > Employment > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Employment > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African American labor union members > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Labor unions > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East Side
  • Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions
  • "Like a scab over an infected sore" : full and fair employment during and after World War II
  • Attacked from the left and the right : community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War
  • A third Labor Federation? : The Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (DPO)
  • Community organizing under the AFL-CIO umbrella.

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