Ebook: Forging a laboring race: the African American worker in the progressive imagination
Author: Lawrie Paul R. D
- Tags: African Americans--Employment, African Americans--Employment--History--20th century, Industrialization, Industrialization--United States--History--20th century, Labor, Labor--United States--History--20th century, Race relations, Working class African Americans, Working class African Americans--History--20th century, History, African Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century, Working class African Americans -- History -- 20th century, Labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Industrializat
- Series: Culture labor history
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: New York University Press
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
For many thinkers across the colour line, the 'negro problem' was inextricably linked to the concurrent 'labour problem, ' occasioning debates regarding blacks' role in the nation's industrial past, present and future. This volume charts the history of an idea-race management-building on recent work in African American, labour and disability history to analyse how ideas of race, work, and the 'fit' or 'unfit' body informed the political economy of early 20th century industrial America.
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