Divided We Stand : : American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality / / Bruce Nelson.
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, a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
141 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 26 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Introduction. "Something in the 'Atmosphere' of America"
- Part One. Longshoremen
- 1. The Logic and Limits of Solidarity, 1850s—1920s
- 2. New York: "They . . . Helped to Create Themselves Out of What They Found Around Them"
- 3. Waterfront Unionism and "Race Solidarity": From the Crescent City to the City of Angels
- Part Two. Steelworkers
- 4. Ethnicity and Race in Steel's Nonunion Era
- 5. "Regardless of Creed, Color or Nationality": Steelworkers and Civil Rights (I)
- 6. "We Are Determined to Secure Justice Now": Steelworkers and Civil Rights (II)
- 7. "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
- Notes
- Index
- Politics And Society In Twentieth-Century America