Black unionism in the industrial South / Ernest Obadele-Starks.

By:

Obadele-Starks, Ernest, 1959-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 11.Publication details: College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©2000.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xxii, 183 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585378177
9780585378176

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black unionism in the industrial South.DDC classification:

331.6/396073 21

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HD6490.R22 U66 2000eb

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Contents:

Ch. 1. "A Serious Menace to the White Union Men": The World of the Black Unionist -- Ch. 2. "Fifty-Fifty": Black Longshoremen and the Racial Paradox -- Ch. 3. "Build ... One of Our Own": Railroad Workers Broaden the Struggle -- Ch. 4. Oil Workers and the Fight for Mobility -- Ch. 5. "Free of Company Domination": Steelworkers Look Inward -- Ch. 6. War, Violence, and Shipbuilding -- Ch. 7. Black Unionism and the FEPC.

Review: "Black Unionism in the Industrial South presents the struggles of black workers who fought for equality and unionization in the heyday of Gulf Coast industry. Ernest Obadele-Starks examines the workers' responses to racial and class domination and their creative strategies to reach their goals. Facing public and corporate policies that typically deferred to white workers, blacks banded together to achieve representation in the workplace, form union auxiliaries, charter their own local unions, seal alliances with members of the black middle class, and manipulate the media to benefit their cause."--Jacket.Summary: "Obadele-Starks eloquently captures these workers' fight and discusses the implications of their struggle on the industrial society of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast today. Students and scholars of American labor history, race relations, and Texas history will find Black Unionism in the Industrial South a valuable scholarly work."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.

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"Black Unionism in the Industrial South presents the struggles of black workers who fought for equality and unionization in the heyday of Gulf Coast industry. Ernest Obadele-Starks examines the workers' responses to racial and class domination and their creative strategies to reach their goals. Facing public and corporate policies that typically deferred to white workers, blacks banded together to achieve representation in the workplace, form union auxiliaries, charter their own local unions, seal alliances with members of the black middle class, and manipulate the media to benefit their cause."--Jacket.

"Obadele-Starks eloquently captures these workers' fight and discusses the implications of their struggle on the industrial society of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast today. Students and scholars of American labor history, race relations, and Texas history will find Black Unionism in the Industrial South a valuable scholarly work."--Jacket.

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