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Organized labor and the black worker, 1619-1981
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- Creator
- Philip S. Foner ; foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 492 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 1608467872, 9781608467877
- OCLC
- ocn959036724
- Second edition published in 1981 by International Publishers; this 2017 reissue published with a new foreword (pages ix-xx) and errata page (page vi) by Robin D. G. Kelley.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-471) and index.
- Foreword / by Robin D.G. Kelley -- Preface -- From Slavery to Freedom -- The Reconstruction Period -- The Colored National Labor Union -- The Knights of Labor and the Black Worker -- The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1881-1915 -- The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1881-1915 (cont.) -- The Railroad Brotherhoods and the IWW, 1890-1915 -- The Black Worker on the Eve of World War I -- The Rise of the Black Industrial Working Class, 1915-18 -- The AF of L and the Black Worker During World War I -- Postwar Black Militancy -- The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1921-29 -- The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Black Workers During the Great Depression -- The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1934-35 -- The CIO and the Black Worker, 1935-39 -- World War II -- The Economic Status of the Black Worker, 1945-55 -- The Cold War Witch Hunts and the Black Worker -- The National Negro Labor Council, 1951-55 -- The AFL-CIO and the Black Worker: The First Five Years -- The Negro-Labor Alliance, 1960-65 -- The Negro-Labor Alliance, 1965-68 -- Memphis and Charleston: Triumph of the Negro-Labor Alliance -- Black Power in the Unions -- The Black Worker, 1970-1981