1st Edition
Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market Roots in the 1919 Steel Strike
By Cliff Brown
Copyright 1998
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Union Militancy and Workers’ Control; Chapter 3 Northern Labor Markets and the Great Migration; Chapter 4 The 1919 Steel Strike; Chapter 5 Analyses of Strikebreaking, Solidarity, and Racial Violence; Chapter 6 Interracial Solidarity in the New Deal Years;
Biography
Brown, Cliff
