Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy

by Marable, Manning; Ness, Immanuel; Wilson, Joseph; Clawson, Dan; Massachusetts, University of; Fletcher, AmherstBill, Jr.; Director, Education; Goldfield, AFL-CIOMichael; Kelley, Robin D.G.; Isaacs Jackson, Columbia UniversityMandi; Marable, Yale Universit

• ISBN13: 9780742546905
• ISBN10: 074254690X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality churned out by the capitalist class, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved through conflict and collective struggle. The foundation of the class divide in the United States remains, while racial and ethnic segregation, privilege, and domination, and the institution of neoliberalism have become a detriment to all workers.remains, while racial and ethnic segregation, privilege and domination, and the institution of neoliberal policies are a detriment to all workers.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Race and Labor: The New American Paradigm in a Global Economy	p. 1
Framing the New Struggle for Racial Labor Justice
The Imperative of Black Worker Mobilization in Renewing Organized Labor in the United States	p. 17
Black Leadership and Organized Labor: From Workplace to Community	p. 27
Race, Labor, and the Community
Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement for Building a Worker Rights Movement	p. 41
Labor Against Empire: At Home and Abroad	p. 57
Achilles' Heel and the Tortoise: Race and the Labor Movement in the United States of America	p. 71
Race in American Society
Organizing Around Work in the Black Community: The Struggle Against Bad Jobs Held by African Americans	p. 99
"For Working People By Working People": Labor, Race, and the Fight for Trade Union Plaza	p. 125
Race, Labor, and Urban Community: Negotiating a "New Social Contract" in New Haven	p. 145
Race and Privatization and the Working Conditions of Low-wage Health Care Laborers	p. 165
Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse	p. 175
References	p. 193
Index	p. 213
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 219
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