Synopses & Reviews
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers contribution to the American labor movement.
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"Foner's book provides considerable illumination of the an important and often overlooked aspect of American labor history." Professor Norman Lederer, American Academy of Political and Social Science
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“Simply the best treatment of the history of the black worker yet to appear and is likely to be the standard work in the field for a long time to come.” William K. Tabb, Review, Review of Black Political Economy
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"Foner's careful and detailed scholarship makes this the best one-volume study of blacks and the labor movement currently available." The Black Scholar
About the Author
Philip S. Foner (1910-1994) was an American historian and professor who taught and lectured all over the world. He wrote and edited more than a hundred books, including the ten-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United States and The Black Panthers Speak.
Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement.