Gateway to Equality : Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis /

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"St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the Gateway City continued to experience significant urban decline as its population swelled and the area's industries stagnated. Over these decades, many African American citizens in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ervin, Keona K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Working class women.
Social justice.
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Equality.
Economic history.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women > Economic conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Justice sociale > Missouri > Saint Louis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noires americaines > Missouri > Saint Louis > Conditions economiques > 20e siecle.
Noires americaines > Missouri > Saint Louis > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Social justice > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
Equality > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
Working class women > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
African American women > Missouri > Saint Louis > Economic conditions > 20th century.
African American women > Missouri > Saint Louis > Social conditions > 20th century.
Missouri > Saint Louis.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Race relations > 20th century.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The labor of dignity : Black working-class women's organizing in the Gateway City
  • We strike and win : food factory workers and working-class radicalism
  • Their side of the case : domestic workers and New Deal labor reform
  • The fight against economic slavery : clerks, youth, and gender in the don't buy where you can't work movement
  • Riveting the sinews of democracy : defense workers and Double V
  • Beneath our dignity : garment workers and the politics of interracial unionism
  • Jobs and homes ... freedom : working-class struggles against postwar urban inequality
  • Conclusion: The legacies of Black working-class women's political leadership.

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