For Jobs and Freedom

by Zieger, Robert H.

• ISBN13: 9780813124605
• ISBN10: 0813124603
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

Work has always been central to the African American experience. Whether as slaves or freedmen, African Americans have struggled to gain economic opportunity. For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 analyzes the position of African American workers in the U.S. economy and social order over the past century and a half. This comprehensive study focuses on black workers' efforts to gain equal rights in the workplace and deals extensively with organized labor's complex and tumultuous relationship with African Americans. Highlighting the problems and opportunities that have characterized efforts to build biracial unions and forge a strong labor-civil rights political coalition, it is an authoritative treatment on the subject of race and labor in modern America.

Author Biography

Robert H. Zieger is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Florida.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The First Fruits of Freedom	p. 9
Into the New Century	p. 43
Great War, Great Migration	p. 70
Race and Labor in Depression and War	p. 106
Race and Labor in the Postwar World	p. 139
Affirmative Action and Labor Action	p. 175
Back to the Future	p. 208
Notes	p. 235
Bibliographical Essay	p. 255
Index	p. 267
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