The Black worker from the founding of the CIO to the AFL-CIO merger, 1936-1955
"Volume seven is among the richest of the collection because of the high rates of labor union mobilization and worker self-organization that went on during the 1930s and 1940s. The Congress of Industrial Organizations and its mass organizing efforts that included Black workers receives consider...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
Temple University Press
2019©1983, 2019
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| Series: | The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "Volume seven is among the richest of the collection because of the high rates of labor union mobilization and worker self-organization that went on during the 1930s and 1940s. The Congress of Industrial Organizations and its mass organizing efforts that included Black workers receives considerable attention. The organizing efforts of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, which we learn supported federal anti-lynching legislation, the National Negro Congress, and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union are documented through sources drawn from Black newspapers, Communist publications such as The Daily Worker, library archives, the records of civil rights organizations, and the papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt." "A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington Movement of the 1940s and the fight over the Fair Employment Practices Committee and the series of AFL conventions in which Randolph introduced multiple anti-discrimination resolutions, reveal organizing efforts in the watershed years of wartime mobilization and the influence of industrial democracy as a widespread political aspiration. The postwar period concerns the organization of the National Negro Labor Council, which played an important role in infusing an emphasis on jobs and economic justice into a national civil rights platform, and the work of the activist Paul Robeson and the illuminating publication Freedom, his radical newspaper"--From foreword |
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| Item Description: | Reissued with foreword by Keona K. Ervin |
| Physical Description: | 666 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780877221975 0877221979 |