The Black Worker, Volume 7 : The Black Worker from the Founding of the CIO to the AFL-CIO Merger, 1936-1955 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- (Editor), Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
African Americans > Employment.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
United States.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: The Congress of Industrial Organization and the black worker, 1935-1940. Introduction ; The Congress of Industrial Organization and the black workers ; Steel Workers' Organizing Committee ; Tobacco workers ; Black seamen ; The National Negro Congress
  • Part II: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Introduction ; STFU and black sharecroppers ; The Missouri demonstration of 1939
  • Part III: The black worker during World War II. Introduction ; Blacks and the war economy ; The march on Washington movement ; Fair Employment Practices Committee ; The FEPC and discrimination at west coast shipyards ; The Philadelphia "hate strike," 1944 ; The CIO and the black worker
  • Part IV: The American Federation of Labor and the black worker, 1936-1945. Introduction ; The AFL and racial discrimination ; Selected AFL Convention resolutions on black labor
  • Part V: The post war decade, 1945-1955. Introduction ; The National Negro Labor Council ; Paul Robeson and the black worker ; The AFL-CIO merger proposal.

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