ISBN:
0877221367
,
1439917744
,
9781439917749
,
9780877221364
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
The Black worker volume 5
Series Statement:
a documentary history from colonial times to the present
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Black worker from 1900 to 1919
DDC:
331.6/396073
Keywords:
African Americans Employment
;
African Americans Economic conditions
;
African American labor union members
;
African American labor union members
;
African Americans ; Economic conditions
;
Race relations
;
African Americans ; Employment
;
United States
;
United States Race relations
Abstract:
Part I: Economic conditions of black workers at the turn of the 20th century. Introduction ; The south ; The north ; Black artisans and mechanics -- Part II: Organized labor and the black worker before World War I. Introduction ; Race relations in the labor movement ; The American Federation of Labor and the black worker ; New Orleans Labor Strike 1907 ; The Alabama Coal Strike ; Georgia Railroad Strike, 1909 -- Part III: The great migration. Introduction ; Exodus to the north ; Letters of Negro migrants, 1916-1918 -- Part IV: The migration and northern race riots. Introduction ; Race riot in East St. Louis, 1917 ; The Chicago race riot, 1919 -- Part V: George E. Haynes and the division of Negro economics. Introduction ; New opportunities raise new questions -- Part VI: Organized labor and the black worker during World War I and readjustment. Introduction ; American Federation of Labor conventions and the black worker ; Race relations and the labor movement ; Black and white in Bogalusa, Louisiana -- Part VII: Socialism, the Industrial Worker of the World, and the black worker. Introduction ; Before the war ; Covington Hall ; Post-war and readjustment.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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