| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present ; volume 7
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Black worker ; v. 7.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Employment.
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African Americans -- Employment. |
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States. |
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994, editor.
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Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Black worker from the founding of the CIO to the AFL-CIO merger, 1936-1955. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1983 0877221979 (OCoLC)10148618 |
| ISBN |
9781439917787 (electronic book) |
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1439917787 (electronic book) |
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0877221979 |
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9780877221975 |
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