The black worker from the founding of the CIO to the AFL-CIO merger, 1936-1955
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- ISBN: 1439917787
- ISBN: 9781439917787
- ISBN: 0877221979
- ISBN: 9780877221975
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1 online resource - Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | African Americans Economic conditions African Americans Employment United States Race relations |
