Organized labor and the black worker, 1619-1981
By: Philip S. Foner
Contributors: Kelley, Robin D. G.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781608467877
Subjects: African American labor union members; African Americans; Employment; History
Notes: Second edition published in 1981 by International Publishers; this 2017 reissue published with a new foreword (pages ix-xx) and errata page (page vi) by Robin D. G. Kelley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-471) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Robin D.G. Kelley; title: Preface; title: From Slavery to Freedom; title: The Reconstruction Period; title: The Colored National Labor Union; title: The Knights of Labor and the Black Worker; title: The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1881-1915; title: The AF of L and the Black Worker (cont.); title: The Railroad Brotherhoods and the IWW, 1890-1915; title: The Black Worker on the Eve of World War I; title: The Rise of the Black Industrial Working Class, 1915-18; title: The AF of L and the Black Worker During World War I; title: Postwar Black Militancy; title: The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1921-29; title: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; title: Black Workers During the Great Depression; title: The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1934-35; title: The CIO and the Black Worker, 1935-39; title: World War II; title: The Economic Status of the Black Worker, 1945-55; title: The Cold War Witch Hunts and the Black Worker; title: The National Negro Labor Council, 1951-55; title: The AFL-CIO and the Black Worker: The First Five Years; title: The Negro-Labor Alliance, 1960-65; title: The Negro-Labor Alliance, 1965-68; title: Memphis and Charleston: Triumph of the Negro-Labor Alliance; title: Black Power in the Unions; title: The Black Worker, 1970-1981.