Working People - A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation

In A Working People, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have built and broken America's black workforce for centuries. From the abolition of slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and Great Recession, African Americans have been singularly disadvantaged members of the workforce, repeatedly denied access to the opportunities all Americans are to be afforded under the Constitution.

List of contents

Introduction
Chronology
Chapter One
Emancipation and the Politics of Black Labor

Chapter Two
Jim Crow's Black Workers

Chapter Three
The Great Black Labor Migration

Chapter Four
A New Deal for Black Workers

Chapter Five
The Black Working-Class Movement for Civil Rights

Chapter Six
Opening the American Workplace

Documents

Selected Bibliography

About the author

By Steven A. Reich - Series edited by Jacqueline M. Moore and Nina Mjagkij

Product details

• Authors: Steven A. Reich, Reich Steven A.
• Assisted by: Mjagkij Nina (Editor of the series), Moore Jacqueline M. (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9781442203327
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0332-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: The African American History Series; African American History (Rowm; The African American Experience Series; The African American Experience Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, African American history;American Studies;labor history