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Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History

Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0807133329
ISBN13: 9780807133323
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity: White unionists found that race was a convenient basis on which to do what unions do -- control the labor supply. Not racism pure and simple but the economics of discrimination explains historic black absence and under-representation in unions.

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