Library Record

Metadata

Collection

Sylvia Gaither Garrison Library Reference Collection

Title

Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle /

Alternate Titles

Michael Keith Honey.

Author

Honey, Michael K.

Call#

HD8081 .A65 H66 1999

Published Place

Berkeley, Calif. :

Publisher

University of California Press,

Series

George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies

Series added entry

George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.

Search Terms

African Americans
Employment
History
Sources
Labor movement
United States
African American labor union members
Race discrimination
Interviews
Social conditions
Trade-unions
Afro-American membership
Race relations

Subjects

African Americans--Employment--History--Sources.
Labor movement--United States--History--Sources.
African American labor union members--History--Sources.
Race discrimination--United States--History--Sources.
African Americans--Interviews.
African Americans--Social conditions.
African Americans--Employment--History.
Labor movement--United States--History.
Race discrimination--United States--History.
Trade-unions--Afro-American membership--History.
United States--Race relations.

Format

Book

ISBN

0520217748 (alk. pap

Control#

ocm41504597

Notes

"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-390) and index.

Electronic Resources:
Contributor biographical information-http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/99016357.html
Publisher description-http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/99016357.html

Table of Contents:
Synopsis and acknowledgments -- Preface: Black history as labor history -- Introduction: the power of remembering -- Segregation, racial violence, and Black workers -- From country to city: Jim Crow at work -- Making a way out of no way: Black women factory workers -- Interlude: not what we seem -- Freedom struggles at the point of production -- Organizing and surviving in the Cold War -- Interlude: arts of resistance -- Civil rights unionism -- "I am a man": unionism and the Black working poor -- The fate of the Black working class: the global economy, racism, and union organizing -- Epilogue: scars of memory.