Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market
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Great Migration impact
industrial race relations
Intensified Job Competition
interracial
Interracial Coalitions
Interracial Organizing
Interracial Solidarity
Labor Competition
labor union discrimination
Large Minority Population
markets
National Committee
Northern Labor Markets
QCA Analysis
Racial Violence
solidarity
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Split Labor Market
Split Labor Market Theory
Steel Unions
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
strikebreaker dynamics
strikebreaking
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Truth Table
Union Discrimination
Union Mobilization
union organizing challenges
White Migration
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- ISBN 9780815331766
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book focuses on community-level race relations during the 1919 Steel Strike, when intense job competition contributed to racial conflict among the nation's steel workers. As the Great Migration brought thousands of black workers to northern cities, their lower labor costs generated racially split labor markets in the industrial sector. Further, the discriminatory policies of labor unions forced many blacks to serve as strike breakers during periods of class conflict. As a result, the migration heightened racial conflict and undercut important union organizing initiatives. The 1919 Steel Strike illustrates how racial divisions crippled many American unions, a pattern that helps to explain the demise of organized labor during the 1920's. No previous studies of the 1919 Steel Strike have systematically compared community processes to determine how local events shaped the strike's outcome. Despite the failure of the 1919 Steel Strike, the varied experiences of workers in different communities reveal much about the causes of racial conflict and the possibilities of interracial solidarity. This study finds that patterns of black migration, local government repression of labor, the organizational strength of local unions, and employers' efforts to inflame racial tension all help to explain community-level variation in interracial solidarity and conflict. (Ph. D. dissertation, Emory University, 1996; revised with new preface)
