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

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (359 pages) Series Garland Studies in the History of American Labor Garland studies in the history of American labor. 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 Summary First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company Notes Print version record Subject Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920. Labor unions -- United States -- History Strikebreakers -- United States -- History African Americans -- Employment -- History African American labor union members -- History Labor market -- History African American labor union members African Americans -- Employment Labor market Labor unions Race relations Strikebreakers SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317776512 1317776518

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