Waterfront Workers of New Orleans

Author: Eric Arnesen
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 019505380X

Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923

Bridging the gaps between African-American and labor history, this compelling study focuses on ten thousand black and white riverfront workers in New Orleans, and class and race relations through the turbulent Civil War and Reconstruction years, the racially flexible 1880s, the racially violent 1890s, and the early twentieth century's age of segregation. Download Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Arnesen explores the role of black unions in the city's larger African-American social network; the connection between race relation and union work rules; the political culture that alternately encouraged and discouraged biracial collaboration; and the rise and fall of two biracial labor federations (the Cotton Men's Executive Council from 1880 to the early 1890s, and the Dock and Cotton Council Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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