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1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations |
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Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; no. 16 |
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Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; no. 16.
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| Contents |
Houston's working class and the origins of organized labor in the Bayou City -- How it all began : Houston, labor, oil, and working at Mr. Hughes's place -- Labor at Hughes Tool, 1929-1934 : hard times, Jim Crow, unions, and Uncle Sam -- Industrial democracy comes to the monarchy of Hughes street : the Wagner Act, the CIO, and Hughes Tool, 1935-1940 -- Jim Crow wearing steel-toed shoes and safety glasses : Hughes Tool's race-based unionism, 1940-1943 -- The battle for union security and civil rights : labor's war at Hughes Tool, 1943-1946 -- The Independent Metal Workers Union era, 1946-1961 -- No gold watch for Jim Crow's retirement |
| Summary |
Annotation On July 12, 1964, in a momentous decision, the National Labor Relations Board decertified the racially segregated Independent Metal Workers Union as the collective bargaining agent at Houston's mammoth Hughes Tool Company. The unanimous decision ending nearly fifty years of Jim Crow unionism at the company marked the first ruling in the Labor Board's history that racial discrimination by a union violated the National Labor Relations Act and was therefore illegal. This ruling was for black workers the equivalent of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court in the area of education. Botson traces the Jim Crow unionism of the company and the efforts of black union activists to bring civil rights issues into the workplace. His analysis clearly demonstrates that without federal intervention, workers at Hughes Tool would never have been able to overcome management's opposition to unionization and to racial equality. Drawing on interviews with many of the principals, as well as extensive mining of company and legal archives, Botson's study "captures a moment in time when a segment of Houston's working-class seized the initiative and won economic and racial justice in their work place." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Hughes Tool Company.
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| SUBJECT |
Hughes Tool Company fast |
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Labor unions -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
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Labor movement -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Employment.
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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African Americans -- Employment
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Labor movement
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Labor unions
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Diskriminierung
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Gewerkschaftsmitglied
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Texas
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Houston, Tex.
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Schwärze
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781603446143 |
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1603446141 |
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