Title: Divided we stand
Description: "Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society - above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on longshoremen in the ports of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and on steelworkers in many of the nation's steel towns, it examines how European immigrants became American and "white" in the crucible of the industrial workplace and the ethnic working-class neighborhood.".

"Divided We Stand includes vivid examples of white working-class "agency" in the construction of racially discriminatory employment structures. But Nelson is less concerned with racism as such, than with the concrete historical circumstances in which racialized class identities emerged and developed.

This leads him to a detailed and often fascinating consideration of white working-class ethnicity, but also to a careful analysis of black workers - their conditions of work, their aspirations and identities, their struggles for equality. Making its case with passion and clarity, Divided We Stand will be a compelling and controversial book."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African American iron and steel workers, African American stevedores, African Americans, Alien labor, Discrimination in employment, Employment, History, Minorities, Race discrimination, Vakverenigingen, Industrie sidérurgique, Travailleurs étrangers, Rassendiscriminatie, Noirs américains, Personnel, Discrimination dans l'emploi, Gewerkschaft, Minorités, Rassendiskriminierung, Discrimination raciale, Foreign workers, Schwarze, Beschäftigung, Dockers, Travail, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Histoire, Débardeurs noirs américains, Travailleurs du fer et de l'acier noirs américains, Ségrégation, African americans, employment, Minorities, employment, united states, Discrimination in employment, united states, Iron and steel workers, Stevedores
Places: United States