Racial Competition and Class Solidarity

Looks at union organizing and strikes that were either strengthened by interracial cooperation or defeated by racial competition during the period between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. It sometimes seems that racial conflict is an intractable impediment to class solidarity in the United States. Yet in a time of economic depression and overt racism, the unions of the CIO did, on a number of occasions, forge interracial solidarity among industrial workers of the 1930s and 1940s. This book explores the role of racism and racial solidarity in union organizing efforts or strikes during the period between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, covering both those conditions and actions that enabled unions to realize interracial solidarity and those more common circumstances in which union organizing was defeated by racial competition. The authors combine theories of racial competition, specifically split labor market theory, with game theory models of collective action to compare the patterns of race relations that accompanied nine American labor organizing drives and strikes. They conclude that racial competition thwarted solidarity when minorities were recent immigrants or where employers used racist paternalism. Where conditions were more favorable, unions overcame racial divisions by institutionalizing their rhetoric about racial equality in the form of black organizers and black union officials, in what came to be known as the “miners’ formula.” This formula worked, and the CIO unions today remain among the country’s most integrated institutions and most powerful advocates of working class interests.

Racial Competition And Class Solidarity

Business & Money

Brueggemann, John

Brown, Cliff

Peters, T. Ralph, Jr.

Economics

State Univ of New York Pr

Looks at union organizing and strikes that were either strengthened by interracial cooperation or defeated by racial competition during the period between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.

Boswell, Terry

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market : Roots in the 1919 Steel Strike (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor)

Routledge

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Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

distributed in North America by Haynes Publications

Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market: Roots in the 1919 Steel Strike (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor)

The Recovery Act 
By: Cliff Brown\nWhat if everything and everybody was deemed nonessential? What would happen if everyone on Earth ended up either dead or in quarantine and computers kept us fed?\nCall it what you want-dystopian fiction or current events-this book is a warning about what might happen if we do not change directions.

The Recovery Act

Literature & Fiction

Dorrance Publishing Co.

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