The era of post-war prosperity and the Great Depression, 1920-1936
"The work of notable Black labor scholars in addition to Du Bois, finds a home in the middle volumes. For example, George E. Haynes, the first African American man to earn a Ph.D. from Columbia University and Director of Negro Economics for the United States Department of Labor, and Helen B. Ir...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
Temple University Press
2019©1981, 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:
- Part I. Economic condition of the Black worker. The twenties ; The thirties
- Part II. Black women workers. Negro women in industry
- Part III. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and other Black unions in the train service. The porters' struggle for recognition ; The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters at American Federation of Labor conventions ; Selected correspondence between A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster ; Other Black unions in the train service
- Part IV. The American Federation of Labor and the Black worker. The A.F.L. and the color line ; William Green and Black workers ; Selected A.F. of L. convention resolutions on Black labor
- Part V. The left. The socialists ; Ben Fletcher and the International Workers of the World ; Otto Hall and the Trade Union Education League ; The American Negro Labor Congress and the National Negro Congress ; The Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League, and the Black worker
- Part VI. Black labor at the crossroads. Black workers and the unions ; Three Negro labor committees ; The Committee for Industrial Organization and the Black worker
- Includes bibliographical references and index