ISBN:
0877221367
,
1439917663
,
9781439917664
,
9780877221364
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
The Black worker volume 1
Series Statement:
a documentary history from colonial times to the present
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Black worker to 1869
DDC:
331.6396073
Keywords:
African Americans Employment
;
African Americans Economic conditions
;
Race relations
;
United States
;
African Americans ; Employment
;
African Americans ; Economic conditions
;
United States Race relations
Abstract:
Part I: Black labor in the old south. Blacks in the crafts and industries of the old south ; Slave craftsman in America ; Industrial slavery ; Hiring-out of slave mechanics Self-purchase by slave mechanics ; A slave mechanic's escape to freedom ; Occupations of free blacks in the south -- Part II: Race relations in old southern industries. The debate over the use of free or slave mechanics ; Petitions and protests of white mechanics against black mechanics ; Free black workers and the law ; Labor violence in black and white ; Observations on race relations -- Part III: Free black labor in the north. Northern free black occupations ; Discrimination against free black workers in the north -- Part IV: Living conditions and race relations in the north. Pauperism ; Colorphobia ; White abolitionists and jobs for free blacks ; Anti-black labor riots ; Northern free black kidnapped and sold into slavery -- Part V: Black workers in specific trades. Free black waiters ; Black seamen ; Black caulkers -- Part VI: The free black workers' response to oppression. Free black uplift : unions, cooperatives, conventions, schools ; Integrate or separate? -- Part VII: The northern black worker during the Civil War. The worsening status of free black workers in the north ; Anti-Negro riots in New York City ; Blacks in the Union Army and Navy ; White northerners anticipate the addition of ex-slaves to the labor force -- Part VIII: Condition of the worker during early Reconstruction. Reconstruction in the south ; Labor discontent in the south ; Condition of black workers in the north during Reconstruction -- Part IX: Exclusion of blacks from white unions during early Reconstruction. Race discrimination in the Cooper's Union, 1868 ; Lewis H. Douglas and the Typographical Union ; Exclusion of blacks from other unions -- Part X: The demand for equality. White labor and black labor : the black viewpoint ; A white labor voice for black equality -- Part XI: Black response to colorphobia. The National Labor Union and black labor, 1866-1869 ; 1869 Convention of the National Labor Union ; The first black labor leader : Isaac Myers, the Baltimore caulkers, and the colored trade unions of Maryland.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
