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The Black worker during the era of the American Federation of Labor and the railroad brotherhoods [electronic resource] / edited by Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis.

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Record details

  • ISBN: 1439917728
  • ISBN: 9781439917725
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The American Federal of Labor and the Black worker - The Pullman porters, the railroad brotherhoods, and the Black worker, 1886-1902 - The United Mine Workers of America and the Black worker - Black coal miners and the issue of strikebreaking - Along the color line : trade union and the Black worker at the turn of the twentieth century - Contemporary assessments.
Source of Description Note:
PDF (JSTOR, viewed Sep. 3, 2019).
Subject: American Federation of Labor.
United Mine Workers of America.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Employment.
Railroads > Employees > Labor unions > United States.
United States > Race relations.