Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market

Released on by Cliff Brown
preview-18

  • Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market Book Detail

  • Author : Cliff Brown
  • Release Date : 2014-01-09
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 240
  • ISBN 13 : 131777650X
  • File Size : 71,71 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market by Cliff Brown PDF Summary

Book Description: This book focuses on community-level race relations during the 1919 Steel Strike, when intense job competition contributed to racial conflict among the nation's steel workers. As the Great Migration brought thousands of black workers to northern cities, their lower labor costs generated racially split labor markets in the industrial sector. Further, the discriminatory policies of labor unions forced many blacks to serve as strike breakers during periods of class conflict. As a result, the migration heightened racial conflict and undercut important union organizing initiatives. The 1919 Steel Strike illustrates how racial divisions crippled many American unions, a pattern that helps to explain the demise of organized labor during the 1920's. No previous studies of the 1919 Steel Strike have systematically compared community processes to determine how local events shaped the strike's outcome. Despite the failure of the 1919 Steel Strike, the varied experiences of workers in different communities reveal much about the causes of racial conflict and the possibilities of interracial solidarity. This study finds that patterns of black migration, local government repression of labor, the organizational strength of local unions, and employers' efforts to inflame racial tension all help to explain community-level variation in interracial solidarity and conflict. (Ph. D. dissertation, Emory University, 1996; revised with new preface)

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

African Americans, Labor, and Society

African Americans, Labor, and Society

File Size : 78,78 MB
Total View : 3515 Views
DOWNLOAD

Over the past twenty-five years, union participation has declined among the nation as whole. Coupled with increasing racial tensions, cutbacks in public program