Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market : Roots in the 1919 Steel Strike.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Brown, Cliff
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Series:Garland studies in the history of American labor.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: Labor, Race, and Class Conflict in 1919; The "Whiteness" of the American Labor Movement; Strikebreaking, Solidarity, and Racial Violence; Organization and Objectives; Notes; Chapter 2. Union Militancy and Workers' Control; The Correlates of Labor Militancy; Organizing Workers and Reorganizing Work; Unionization in the Nineteenth Century; Labor Organizing in the Era of U.S. Steel; Notes; Chapter 3. Northern Labor Markets and the Great Migration.
  • Development and Labor MigrationThe Great Migration; Split Labor Markets in the Steel Industry; Sojourning and Return Migration; Notes; Chapter 4. The 1919 Steel Strike; The AFL Organizing Campaign; The Steel Strike; Interracial Conflict and Solidarity; Strikebreaking and Violence in Gary; Solidarity in Cleveland and Wheeling; Notes; Chapter 5. Analyses of Strikebreaking, Solidarity, and Racial Violence; Contending Arguments; Qualitative and Comparative Methods; Mill's Methods of Agreement and Indirect Difference; Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Assessing Diversity.
  • Analyses of Racial Conflict and UnionizationCommunity Outcomes; Explanatory Factors; QCA Results; Black Strikebreaking; Interracial Solidarity; Racial Violence; Implications for Split Labor Market Research; Notes; Chapter 6. Interracial Solidarity in the New Deal Years; Black Workers and the SWOC; Workers, Employers, and the State; Competition and Split Labor Markets; Notes; Appendix; References; Index.