Racial Competition and Class SolidaritySUNY Press, 9 mars 2006 - 268 pages It sometimes seems that racial conflict is an intractable impediment to class solidarity in the United States. Yet in a time of economic depression and overt racism, the unions of the CIO did, on a number of occasions, forge interracial solidarity among industrial workers of the 1930s and 1940s. This book explores the role of racism and racial solidarity in union organizing efforts or strikes during the period between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, covering both those conditions and actions that enabled unions to realize interracial solidarity and those more common circumstances in which union organizing was defeated by racial competition. The authors combine theories of racial competition, specifically split labor market theory, with game theory models of collective action to compare the patterns of race relations that accompanied nine American labor organizing drives and strikes. They conclude that racial competition thwarted solidarity when minorities were recent immigrants or where employers used racist paternalism. Where conditions were more favorable, unions overcame racial divisions by institutionalizing their rhetoric about racial equality in the form of black organizers and black union officials, in what came to be known as the "miners' formula." This formula worked, and the CIO unions today remain among the country's most integrated institutions and most powerful advocates of working class interests. |
Table des matières
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Theories of Racial Competition and Organizing Solidarity | 19 |
3 Migration and MarketsThe Origins of Split Labor Markets | 45 |
4 Sojourner LaborThe Pattern of Discrimination against Chinese Immigrants 18501882 | 61 |
5 Racial Competition in the Great Steel Strike of 1919 | 85 |
6 The FormulaInterracial Solidarity in the Coal Steel and Auto Unions19271941 | 109 |
7 Operation DixiePaternalism andEmployer Discrimination in Southern Textiles 19461953 | 155 |
8 ConclusionsOrganizing Solidarity | 189 |
AppendixQualitative Comparative Analyses of Strikebreaking and Solidarity | 199 |
Notes | 218 |
References | 233 |
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Racial Competition and Class Solidarity Terry Boswell,Cliff Brown,John Brueggemann,T. Ralph Peters Jr. Aucun aperçu disponible - 2006 |
Racial Competition and Class Solidarity Terry Boswell,Cliff Brown,John Brueggemann,T. Ralph Peters Jr. Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |