A renegade union [electronic resource] : interracial organizing and labor radicalism / Lisa Phillips.
Series: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2013.Description: xv, 231 p. : illISBN:- 9780252037320 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780252094507 (e-book)
- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- African American labor union members -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Minorities -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Discrimination in employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
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- HD6519.N5 P45 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.