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Divided we stand : American workers and the struggle for Black equality / Bruce Nelson.

Nelson, Bruce, 1940- (Author).

Summary:

"Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society - above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on longshoremen in the ports of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and on steelworkers in many of the nation's steel towns, it examines how European immigrants became American and "white" in the crucible of the industrial workplace and the ethnic working-class neighborhood."

"Divided We Stand includes vivid examples of white working-class "agency" in the construction of racially discriminatory employment structures. But Nelson is less concerned with racism as such, than with the concrete historical circumstances in which racialized class identities emerged and developed. This leads him to a detailed and often fascinating consideration of white working-class ethnicity, but also to a careful analysis of black workers - their conditions of work, their aspirations and identities, their struggles for equality. Making its case with passion and clarity, Divided We Stand will be a compelling and controversial book."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 069122742X
ISBN: 9780691227429
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xliv, 388 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, �2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: "Something in the 'atmosphere' of America" -- pt. 1. Longshoremen -- The logic and limits of solidarity, 1850s-1920s -- New York: "They ... helped to create themselves out of what they found around them" -- Waterfront unionism and "race solidarity": from the Crescent City to the City of Angels -- pt. 2. Steelworkers -- Ethnicity and race in steel's nonunion era -- "Regardless of creed, color, or nationality": steelworkers and civil rights (I) -- "We are determined to secure justice now": steelworkers and civil rights (II) -- "The steel was hot, the jobs were dirty, and it was war": class, race, and working-class agency in Youngstown -- Epilogue: "Other energies, other dreams": toward a new labor movement.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.