Labor Divided

Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960

Edited by Robert Asher & Charles Stephenson

Subjects: American Labor History
Series: SUNY series in American Labor History
Paperback : 9780887069727, 390 pages, March 1989
Hardcover : 9780887069703, 390 pages, March 1990

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Acknowledgments
I. INTRODUCTION
1. American Capitalism, Labor Organization, and the Racial/Ethnic Factor: An Exploration
Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson
II. NON-WHITE WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES
Asian
2. Ethnicity and Class in Hawaii: The Plantation Labor Experience, 1835-1920
Ronald Takaki
3. Chinese American Agricultural Workers and the Anti-Chinese Movement in Los Angeles, 1870-1890
Raymond Lou
4. Ethnic Life and Labor in Chicago's Pre-World-War-II Filipino Community
Barabara M. Posadas
Hispanic
5. Border Proletarians: Mexican-Americans and the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1939-1946
Mario T. Garcia
6. Puerto Ricans in the Garment Industry of New York City, 1920-1960
Altagracia Ortiz
African-American
7. The Red Scare and Black Workers in Alabama: The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1945-53
Horace Huntley

III. EUROPEAN-BACKGROUND WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES
Northern and Western Europe
8. Immigration, Ethnicity and the American Working-Class Community: Fall River, 1850-1900
John Cumbler
9. Scottish-Americans and the Beginnings of the Modern Class Struggle: Immigrant Coal Miners in Northern Illinois, 1865-1889
John H. M. Laslett
10. The German Brewery Workers of New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century
Dorothee Schneider
11. Catholic Corporatism, French Canadian Workers, and Industrial Unionism in Rhode Island, 1938-1956
Gary Gerstle
12. British and Irish Militants in the Detroit UAW in the 1930s
Steve Babson
Southern and Eastern Europe
13. Women's Work, Family Economy and Labor Militancy: The Case of Chicago's Packing-House Workers, 1900-1922
James R. Barrett
14. Anthony Capraro and the Lawrence Strike of 1919
Rudolph J. Vecoli
15. The Transformation of Working-Class Ethnicity: Corporate Control, Americanization, and the Polish Immigrant Middle Class in Bayonne, New Jersey, 1915-1925
John J. Bukowczyk
Notes
Contributors
Index

Description

Labor Divided is the first anthology on race, ethnicity and the history of American working-class struggles to give substantial attention to the experiences of African-American, Asian, and Hispanic workers as well as to the experiences of workers from European backgrounds. The essays in Labor Divided cover a time period of more than a century. They focus on the experiences of service workers as well as factory workers, women as well as men. Because the American labor force presently is absorbing significant numbers of workers from abroad, and especially Asian and Hispanic workers, this volume will be of great interest to readers seeking historical perspectives on contemporary economic developments.

Robert Asher is Professor of History at The University of Connecticut. Charles Stephenson is Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. They are editors of Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class History published by SUNY Press.