Refusal - Black Women Workers and Emancipatory Struggle

Recasting American history from the vantage point of black women workers, whose struggles for justice point the way to emancipation for all of us

About the author

Keona K. Ervin is professor of gender, sexuality, and women's Studies at Bowdoin College. Ervin is is the author of the award-winning book, Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis (University Press of Kentucky Press, 2017). She has published articles and reviews in International Labor and Working-Class History, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, New Labor Forum, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Ervin is the Senior Editor of the Labor History section of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.

Product details

• Authors: Keona Ervin
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.05.2026
• EAN: 9781839763731
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-373-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 400 g
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Sociology: work & labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology: work and labour, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism