Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History

by Paul, D. Moreno and Paul D. Moreno

Book Overview

In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity: White unionists found that race was a convenient basis on which to do what unions do -- control the labor supply. Not racism pure and simple but "the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133329
• ISBN13: 9780807133323
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"