Divided We Stand (eBook)

American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality

Bruce Nelson (Autor)

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2021
440 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22742-9 (ISBN)

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Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "e;making"e; 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 Angeles, and on steelworkers in many of the nation's steel towns, it examines how European immigrants became American and "e;white"e; in the crucible of the industrial workplace and the ethnic and working-class neighborhood. As workers organized on the job, especially during the overlapping CIO and civil rights eras in the middle third of the twentieth century, trade unions became a vital arena in which "e;old"e; and "e;new"e; immigrants and black migrants forged new alliances and identities and tested the limits not only of class solidarity but of American democracy. The most volatile force in this regard was the civil rights movement. As it crested in the 1950s and '60s, "e;the Movement"e; confronted unions anew with the question, "e;Which side are you on?"e; This book demonstrates the complex ways in which labor organizations answered that question and the complex relationships between union leaders and diverse rank-and-file constituencies in addressing it. Divided We Stand includes vivid examples of white working-class "e;agency"e; in the construction of racially discriminatory employment structures. But Nelson is less concerned with racism as such than with the concrete historical circumstances in which racialized class identities emerged and developed. This leads him to a detailed and often fascinating consideration of white, working-class ethnicity but also to a careful analysis of black workers--their conditions of work, their aspirations and identities, their struggles for equality. Making its case with passion and clarity, Divided We Stand will be a compelling and controversial book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 26 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Abolitionists • activism • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) • African Americans • American Committee on Africa • American Federation of Labor • anti-Chinese movement • A. Philip Randolph • Apprenticeship • Atlantic Steel • Bethlehem Steel • Black Metropolis • black people • blast furnace • British West Indies Regiment (BWIR) • Brown v. Board of Education • Bureau of Labor Statistics • Carnegie Steel • Catholics: and communism • chain migration • chairman • Chinese immigrants • Civil and Political Rights • Civil Rights Movement • Class • collective bargaining • communism • Communist party (CP) • Dead-end job • democratic party • Douglass, Frederick • Dues Protest Committee • Dwyer, John • Eisenhower, Dwight • Elder, Morton • Emerson, Ralph Waldo • Employment • employment discrimination • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) • ethnic group • Exclusion • Fitzpatrick, John • Garrisonians • Gary (Indiana) • Germans • Great Steel Strike (1919) • Harlem Trade Union Council • hearth • Herbert Hill (labor director) • Hill, Herbert • Homestead Strike • Homestead Strike (1892) • hostility • Immigration • Immigration to the United States • industrial unionism • industrial worker • Inland Steel • Institution • Insurgency • International Association of Machinists • International Workers Order (IWO) • Irish Free State • Irish Nationalism • Italians • Jews • Jones and Laughlin Steel (J and L) • Kessler-Harris, Alice • laborer • Labor history (discipline) • Labor history of the United States • labor relations • Labour movement • Layoff • left-wing politics • Liberty Hall (Harlem) • Little Steel companies • little steel strike • Local 968 (ILA) • Local union • longshoremen • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom • Marxism • Massive Resistance • mexicans • middle class • minstrelsy • Murray, Philip • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Nationality • National Labor Union • National Urban League • Nativism (politics) • New Deal • New Negro • newspaper • new unionism • New York City Draft Riots • Nonviolence • O’Connell, Daniel • Oppression • Oral History • Philip Murray • Politician • Politics • port of New York • Prejudice • Quam-Wickham, Nancy • Race &amp • Race & Class • Racial Equality • Racial segregation • Racism • Rank and File Committee • Regime • Republican Party • Republic Steel • Salcido, Cristobal (Chu Chu) • seniority • Shop Floor • Slavery • Social Democracy • Social Inequality • Steelworker (United States Navy) • stevedore • Strike action • Strikebreaker • Supervisor • teamsters • Thompson, Perry • tradesman • Trade Union • Unemployment • Union representative • United Automobile Workers • United Labor party • United Mine Workers • United States Shipping Board • United Steelworkers • U.S. Steel • wage • walkout • Wallace, George • white americans • white supremacy • Williams, Walter • Workforce • Working Class • workplace • World War I • World War II • Youngstown Sheet and Tube
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22742-X / 069122742X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22742-9 / 9780691227429