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A renegade union : interracial organizing and labor radicalism / Lisa Phillips.

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"Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail clerks, office workers, warehouse...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Series:Working class in American history.
Subjects:
Labor unions > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African American labor union members > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Minorities > Employment > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Employment > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in employment > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African American labor union members.
African Americans > Employment.
Discrimination in employment.
Labor unions.
Minorities > Employment.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East side
  • Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions
  • "Like a scab over an infected sore": full and fair employment during and after World War II
  • Attacked from the left and the right: community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War
  • A third Labor Federation? The Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (DPO)
  • Community organizing under the AFL-CIO umbrella.

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