The Black Worker: The Negro and the Labor Movement

1968 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
Lester C. Thurow ◽  
Sterling D. Spero ◽  
Abram L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
Black Worker

The Black Worker: The Negro and the Labor Movement.

1931 ◽  
Vol 26 (175) ◽  
pp. 370
Author(s):  
Albert Abrahamson ◽  
Sterling D. Spero ◽  
Abram L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
Black Worker

The Crisis of the Black Worker, the U.S. Labor Movement, and Democracy for All

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-402
Author(s):  
Augustus C. Wood
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Black Worker ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Black Workers ◽  
Socioeconomic Condition ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
American Working Class ◽  
The U.S

This paper contextualizes the socioeconomic condition of the African-American working class in the American Labor Movement. As the union movement continues its steady decline, African-American social conditions are deteriorating at an alarming pace. Racial oppression disrupted historically powerful labor movements as African-Americans served in predominantly subproletariat labor positions. As a result, Black workers endured the racially oppressive U.S. structure on the periphery of the U.S. Labor Movement. I argue that Black working-class social conditions are dialectically related to their subjugated position in the modern-day union movement. Therefore, for Black social conditions and working-class conditions to improve overall, the union movement must centralize the conditions of the Black workers.

The Thai Labor Movement

Asian Survey ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 931-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bevars D. Mabry
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement

Where is Our Labor Movement Going?

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
I. G. Shablinskii
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement

O mundo urbano do trabalho no alvorecer da industrialização: o caso da Península de Setúbal

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana Dias Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Industrial Areas

This article main goal is to deepen the understanding both a spatial reality and a historical process – the emergency of industrial areas and workers communities.  It seeks to illustrate, through an empirical and monographic research, several territorial and spatial phenomena related to the germination of intricate social networks in the workers neighborhoods and villages and the rise of the labor movement. It attempts to demonstrate that, if many questions still prevail concerning the relationships between economic structure and political action, it is clear that the origin of the workers mass associations is deeply related with industrialization, urbanization and the sociability framework resulting of both processes.

Organizing in the 1970s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily E. LB. Twarog
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
National Organization ◽  
Consumer Activism ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family

In 1973, housewives in California launched what would be the last meat boycott of the twentieth century. And, like its predecessors, the 1973 boycott gained national momentum albeit with little political traction now that Peterson had left public life for a job in the private sector as the consumer advisor to the Giant grocery store chain. And in some quarters of the labor movement, activists drew very clear links between the family economy and the stagnation plaguing workers’ wages. The 1973 boycott led to the founding of the National Consumers Congress, a national organization intended to unite consumer organizers. While it was a short-lived organization, it demonstrates the momentum that consumer activism was building. This chapter also reflects on the lost coordinating opportunity between housewives organizing around consumer issues and the women’s movement in the 1970s.

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