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The tribe of Black Ulysses : African American lumber workers in the Jim Crow south / by Jones, William Powell,1970-(CARDINAL)274985;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.Remaking a southern lumber mill world -- Black families between farm and factory -- Race, class and leisure in the industrial South -- The new deal and the new tradition -- Race, region, and the limits of industrial unionism -- Black working-class politics in the postwar South.
Subjects: African American men; Industries; Industrialization; Working class;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Working Americans, 1898-2016. by Derks, Scott,contributor.(CARDINAL)218175; Mars, Laura,editor.(CARDINAL)433525;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A look at what kind of work Americans did, the homes they lived in, the goods they bought, the entertainment they sought, and the society and history that shaped their world
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Informational works.; Reference works.; Labor; Labor; Occupations; Occupations; Social classes; Social classes; Working class African Americans; Working class African Americans; Working class; Working class;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The short and tragic life of Robert Peace [large print] a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League / by Hobbs, Jeff,1980-(CARDINAL)483076;
Subjects: Biographies.; Large print books.; Hobbs, Jeff, 1980-; Peace, Robert, 1980-2011.; Yale University; African American college graduates; Drug dealers; Working class African Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Poor people's movements : why they succeed, how they fail / by Piven, Frances Fox,author.(CARDINAL)123411; Cloward, Richard A.(CARDINAL)128257;
Includes bibliographies and index.The structuring of protest -- The Unemployed Workers' Movement -- The Industrial Workers' Movement -- The Civil Rights Movement -- The Welfare Rights Movement."Four mass movements of the poor are analyzed. Two are drawn from the Great Depression: the movement of the unemployed that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America, and the movement of industrial workers that produced the CIO. And two are drawn from the postwar period: the Southern Civil Rights movement, and the movement of welfare recipients that generated the National Welfare Rights Organization. The industrial workers' and the civil rights movements gained more than the others, and it is the central concern of the authors to show that differences in the use of mass defiance help to explain variations in success"--Book jacket.
Subjects: Working class; Labor movement; Labor; African Americans; Welfare rights movement; Social change.; Working class;
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Parlor ladies and ebony drudges : African American women, class, and work in a South Carolina community / by Mack, Kibibi Voloria C.,1955-(CARDINAL)835954; Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth,1941-2007,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)164787;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.Upper-class African Americans -- Upper-class women's work outside the home -- Upper-class women's work inside the home -- Middle-class African Americans -- Middle-class women's work outside the home -- Middle-class women's work inside the home -- Working-class African Americans -- Working-class women's work outside the home -- Working-class women's work inside the home.Focusing on the community of Orangeburg, South Carolina, from 1880 to 1940 ... explores the often sharp class divisions that developed among African American women in that small, semirural area.Mack's research challenges the conventional thesis that all African American women toiled - and toiled hard - throughout their lives. She shows that this was only true if they belonged to certain socioeconomic classes. In Orangeburg, a significant minority did not have to work outside the home (unless they chose to do so) and that some even had staffs of domestics to do their housework - a situation paralleling that of the town's genteel white women. While the factors of gender and race did restrict the lives of all African American women in Jim Crow Orangeburg, Mack argues, there was no real solidarity across class lines. In fact, as the points out, tensions often arose between women of the upper classes and those of the middle and working classes.
Subjects: African American women; Social classes;
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No right to an honest living : the struggles of Boston's Black workers in the Civil War era / by Jones, Jacqueline,1948-author.(CARDINAL)149519;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-501) and index.Introduction: "Words are easy" -- Prelude: The Edloe sixty-six -- 1850-1860 -- The fugitive economy -- Underground commons -- The world of the streets -- Boston in the shadow of slavery -- Women in service -- Making a living in unsettled times -- 1861-1865 -- The politics of wartime work and charitable assistance -- Boston diaspora I -- "A higher standard of courage" -- Hardship on the homefront -- "False and exaggerated ideas of freedom" -- 1865-1875 -- Their suffering housekeepers -- Boston diaspora II-- White men demanding their own rights, but refusing to concede to others theirs -- Persistent industry -- "Safely doing injustice" to black Bostonians."Before, during, and after the US Civil War, Boston's Black workers were barred from the skilled trades, factory work, and public-works projects. In Boston, as in cities across the North, white abolitionists focused virtually all their energies on the plight of enslaved Black Southerners, while refusing to address the challenges faced by their Black neighbors. The author presents inspiring and heart-wrenching stories of people-from day laborers and domestics to physicians and lawyers-who ingeniously forged careers in the face of monumental obstacles."--
Subjects: Informational works.; African Americans; Free Black people; Fugitive slaves; Labor; Working class African Americans;
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The Wartime genesis of free labor : the upper South / by Berlin, Ira,1941-2018.(CARDINAL)164625;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Freed persons; Working class; Enslaved persons; African Americans;
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The Wartime genesis of free labor : the lower South / by Berlin, Ira,1941-2018.(CARDINAL)164625;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Freed persons; Working class; Enslaved persons; African Americans;
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A slave no more [sound recording] : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / by Blight, David W.(CARDINAL)195383; Allen, Richard,narrator.(CARDINAL)762676; Graham, Dion,narrator.(CARDINAL)270848;
Read by David Blight, Richard Allen, and Dion Graham.Two slave narratives that document the experiences of runaway slaves who managed to reach the protection of Union forces are accompanied by biographies of both men that reconstruct their childhoods, escape, Civil War service, and successful later lives.
Subjects: Washington, John, 1838-1918.; Turnage, Wallace, 1846-1916.; Fugitive slaves; Enslaved persons; Enslaved persons; African Americans; Working class; Slave narratives; Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / by Blight, David W.(CARDINAL)195383;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-299) and index.
Subjects: Slave narratives.; Biographies.; Washington, John, 1838-1918.; Turnage, Wallace, 1846-1916.; Fugitive slaves; Enslaved persons; Enslaved persons; African Americans; Working class; Slave narratives;
Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 32
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