Black Workers Remember
An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19974210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Keith Honey, Michael Honey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 402 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Black workers remember (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520217744.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4256352933 |
| ISBN | 9780520217744 |
| Open Library | OL16974137M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, this book tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own words. It provides striking firsthand accounts of the experiences of black southerners living under segregation in Memphis, Tennessee. Eloquent and personal, these oral histories comprise a unique primary source and provide a new way of understanding the black labor experience during the industrial era. Together, the stories demonstrate how black workers resisted racial apartheid in American industry and underscore the active role of black working people in history. The individual stories are arranged thematically in chapters on labor organizing, Jim Crow in the workplace, police brutality, white union racism, and civil rights struggles. Taken together, they ask us to rethink the conventional understanding of the civil rights movement as one led by young people and preachers in the 1950s and 1960s. Instead, we see the freedom struggle as the product of generations of people, including workers who organized unions, resisted Jim Crow at work, and built up their families, churches, and communities. The collection also reveals the devastating impact that a globalizing capitalist economy has had on black communities and the importance of organizing the labor movement as an antidote to poverty
Civil rights · Labor history · Labor relations · Memphis · Oral history · Political science · Poverty · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Race, History, and American Society · African American labor union members · African americans · Afro-American membership · Afro-Americans · Business & Economics · employment · Employment · Entretiens · History · Interviews · Labor · Labor & Industrial Relations · Labor movement · Labor supply · Labor unions · Mouvement ouvrier · Noirs américains · Race discrimination · race relations · Relations raciales · Social conditions · Sources · Syndiqués noirs américains · Trade-unions · Travail · united states
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2009 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |