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Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality

Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality

Nelson, Bruce

Paperback

Series: Politics and Society in Modern America, Book 12

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0691095345
ISBN13: 9780691095349
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2002
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the making and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on longshoremen in the ports of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and on steelworkers in many of the nation's steel towns, it examines how European immigrants became American and white in the crucible of the industrial workplace and the ethnic and working-class neighborhood.

As workers organized on the job, especially during the overlapping CIO and civil rights eras in the middle third of the twentieth century, trade unions became a vital arena in which old and new immigrants and black migrants forged new alliances and identities and tested the limits not only of class solidarity but of American democracy. The most volatile force in this regard was the civil rights movement. As it crested in the 1950s and '60s, the Movement confronted unions anew with the question, Which side are you on? This book demonstrates the complex ways in which labor organizations answered that question and the complex relationships between union leaders and diverse rank-and-file constituencies in addressing it.


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