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Author : Dave Wells
Release : 1976
Genre : Race discrimination
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Book Synopsis A short history of New Orleans dockworkers [by] Dave Wells and Jim Stodder by : Dave Wells
Download or read book A short history of New Orleans dockworkers [by] Dave Wells and Jim Stodder written by Dave Wells. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Arnesen
Release : 2007
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History by : Eric Arnesen
Download or read book Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History written by Eric Arnesen. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Eric Arnesen
Release : 1994
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 770/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Waterfront Workers of New Orleans by : Eric Arnesen
Download or read book Waterfront Workers of New Orleans written by Eric Arnesen. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the nineteenth century, American and foreign travelers often found New Orleans a delightful, exotic stop on their journeys; few failed to marvel at the riverfront, the center of the city's economic activity. . . . But absent from the tourism industry's historical recollection is any reference to the immigrants or black migrants and their children who constituted the army of laborers along the riverfront and provided the essential human power to keep the cotton, sugar, and other goods flowing. . . . In examining one diverse group of workers--the 10,000 to 15,000 cotton screwmen, longshoremen, cotton and round freight teamsters, cotton yardmen, railroad freight handlers, and Mississippi River roustabouts--this book focuses primarily on the workplace and the labor movement that emerged along the waterfront."--From the preface
Author : Daniel Rosenberg
Release : 1988-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 498/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis New Orleans Dockworkers by : Daniel Rosenberg
Download or read book New Orleans Dockworkers written by Daniel Rosenberg. This book was released on 1988-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the conditions which led to a remarkable instance of interracial solidarity known as "half and half," an expression used to identify the cooperation and cohesion among 10,000 Black and white dockworkers during the early twentieth century. Through interracial agreements which divided work and union leadership equally between Blacks and whites, dockworkers reduced the workload and pace imposed by shipping firms, and formed the basis for the general dock strike of 1907, described as "one of the most stirring manifestations of labor solidarity in American history." Rosenberg explores the phenomenon of "half and half" within the context of progressive segregation, as employers encouraged competition between and division of the races. Rosenberg also probes the nature of longshore work, dockworkers' views of Jim Crow, and industrial unionist trends, as well as the conclusions drawn by dockers after the levee race riots of the 1890s--"the working of the white and negro races on terms of equality has been the fruitful source of most of the trouble on the New Orleans levee."
Author : Bruce Nelson
Release : 2021-03-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Divided We Stand by : Bruce Nelson
Download or read book Divided We Stand written by Bruce Nelson. This book was released on 2021-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "making" 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 "white" 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 "old" and "new" 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, "the Movement" confronted unions anew with the question, "Which side are you on?" 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 "agency" 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.
