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9780807849330

The Color of Work

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807849330

  • ISBN10:

    0807849332

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

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Summary

Using legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin provides the first in-depth account of the struggle of black labor unions to remove restrictions on which jobs could be held by black employees in southern paper mills.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1(6)
Irretrievably Mired in Undesirable Jobs: The Color of Work before the 1960s
7(26)
There Was Nothing for Us but Labor Work: Black Workers in the Paper Industry, 1945--1965
33(16)
All This Come through the Civil Rights Act: Federal Mandates and Black Activism in the Southern Paper Industry, 1964--1980
49(24)
We Want Our People to Have an Opportunity to Advance: The Civil Rights Activism of Segregated Black Local Unions, 1945--1970
73(26)
Segregated Locals and the Turn to the Federal Government
99(22)
Just Punching in and Going into Work, You Were Separate: Segregated Facilities in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945--1970
121(18)
The Jackson Memorandum and the Limits of Federal Intervention
139(24)
Like Armageddon: The Reaction of White Workers to Job Integration
163(22)
The St. Joe Saga
185(22)
Conclusion 207(10)
Notes 217(40)
Bibliography 257(10)
Index 267

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