Divided we stand : American workers and the struggle for Black equality /
"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 emerge...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
©2001.
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| Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcz4m |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "Something in the 'atmosphere' of America"
- pt. 1. Longshoremen
- The logic and limits of solidarity, 1850s-1920s
- New York: "They ... helped to create themselves out of what they found around them"
- Waterfront unionism and "race solidarity": from the Crescent City to the City of Angels
- pt. 2. Steelworkers
- Ethnicity and race in steel's nonunion era
- "Regardless of creed, color, or nationality": steelworkers and civil rights (I)
- "We are determined to secure justice now": steelworkers and civil rights (II)
- "The steel was hot, the jobs were dirty, and it was war": class, race, and working-class agency in Youngstown
- Epilogue: "Other energies, other dreams": toward a new labor movement.