Black Americans and organized labor : a new history /

In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity:...

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Moreno, Paul D.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
Ausgabe:
Lousiana paperback edition.
Zusammenfassung:
In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity: White unionists found that race was a convenient basis on which to do what unions do-control the labor supply. Not racism pure and simple but ""the economics of discrimination"" explains historic black absence and under-representation in unions. Moreno's sweeping reexamination stretches from the an
Umfang:
1 online resource (349 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780807148822
0807148822
9780807148839
0807148830
9780807134252
0807134252
Schlagworte:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African Americans > Employment > History.
Discrimination in employment > United States > History.
Labor movement > Political aspects > United States > History.
Labor unions > Social aspects > United States > History.
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