Synopses & Reviews
Review
Clearly the articles offer fresh grist for the scholarly mill.... All of these authors demonstrate the insights to be gained from probing the dusty corners of black labor history.... As a volume whose aim is to provoke a fresh look into the history of black labor in America the book succeeds.Pennsylvania History
Table of Contents
Call your old master "master"; Southern political leaders and Negro labor during presidential reconstruction, by T. Wagstaff.--Negro labor in the western cattle industry, 1866-1900, by K. W. Porter.--Black workers and labor unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897-1904, by P. B. Worthman.--Labor conflict and racial violence; the Black worker in Chicago, 1894-1919, by W. M. Tuttle.--The Wilson administration and the wartime mobilization of Black Americans, 1917-1918, by J. L. Scheiber and H. N. Scheiber.--Closed shop and white shop; the Negro response to collective bargaining, 1933-1935, by R. Wolters.--Race, class, and progress; Black leadership and industrial unionism, 1936-1945, by J. S. Olson.