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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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Part I: The Congress of Industrial Organization and the Black worker, 1935-1940. Introduction ; The Congress of Industrial Organization and the Black workers ; Steel Workers' Organizing Committee ; Tobacco workers ; Black seamen ; The National Negro Congress
- Part II: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Introduction ; STFU and Black sharecroppers ; The Missouri roadside demonstration of 1939
- Part III: The Black worker during World War II. Introduction ; Blacks and the war economy ; The March on Washington Movement ; Fair Employment Practices Committee ; The FEPC and discrimination at west coast shipyards ; The Philadelphia "hate strike," 1944 ; The CIO and the Black worker
- Part IV: The American Federation of Labor and the Black worker, 1936-1945. Introduction ; The AFL and racial discrimination ; Selected AFL Convention resolutions on Black labor
- Part V: The post war decade, 1945-1955. Introduction ; The National Negro Labor Council ; Paul Robeson and the Black worker ; The AFL-CIO merger proposal