Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market: Roots in the 1919 Steel Strike

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Cliff Brown

Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market

Roots in the 1919 Steel Strike

Cliff Brown

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Routledge
23 June 2015

History of the Americas; Industrialisation & industrial history; Black & Asian studies; Iron, steel & metals industries; Strikes

Series: Garland Studies in the History of American Labor

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)

By: Cliff Brown
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781138880191
ISBN 10: 1138880191
Series: Garland Studies in the History of American Labor
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 23 June 2015
Recommended Age: 13 years
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Union Militancy and Workersâ€™ Control; Chapter 3 Northern Labor Markets and the Great Migration; Chapter 4 The 1919 Steel Strike; Chapter 5 Analyses of Strikebreaking, Solidarity, and Racial Violence; Chapter 6 Interracial Solidarity in the New Deal Years;

Brown, Cliff