For jobs and freedom : race and labor in America since 1865 /
Work has always been central to the African American experience. Whether as slaves or freedmen, African Americans have struggled to gain economic opportunity. For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 analyzes the position of African American workers in the U.S. economy and social o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2007.
©2007 |
| Series: | Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Work has always been central to the African American experience. Whether as slaves or freedmen, African Americans have struggled to gain economic opportunity. For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 analyzes the position of African American workers in the U.S. economy and social order over the past century and a half. This comprehensive study focuses on black workers' efforts to gain equal rights in the workplace and deals extensively with organized labor's complex and tumultuous relationship with African Americans. Highlighting the problems and opportunities that have ch. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813172705 0813172705 9780813124605 0813124603 9780813146638 0813146631 |
