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Author:

Nelson, Bruce, 1940-

Title:

Divided we stand : American workers and the struggle for Black equality / Bruce Nelson.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xliv, 388 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History.--History.
Minorities--History.--United States--History.
Alien labor--United States--History.
Discrimination in employment--United States--History.
Race discrimination--United States--History.
African American iron and steel workers--History.
African American stevedores--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-376) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "Something in the 'atmosphere' of America" -- pt. 1. Longshoremen -- The logic and limits of solidarity, 1850s-1920s -- New York: "They... helped to create themselves out of what they found around them" -- Waterfront unionism and "race solidarity": from the Crescent City to the City of Angels -- pt. 2. Steelworkers -- Ethnicity and race in steel's nonunion era -- "Regardless of creed, color, or nationality": steelworkers and civil rights (I) -- "We are determined to secure justice now": steelworkers and civil rights (II) -- "The steel was hot, the jobs were dirty, and it was war": class, race, and working-class agency in Youngstown -- Epilogue: "Other energies, other dreams": toward a new labor movement.

Series:

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

ISBN:

9780691017327 (alk. paper)
0691017328 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44089392

LCCN:

00040094

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)