American Work Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

Name: American Work Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
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ISBN: 9780393318333

ISBN-10: 0393318338

ISBN-13: 9780393318333

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jacqueline Jones

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This sweeping social history of over four centuries of competition, co-operation and exclusion demonstrates how black people were excluded from significant social transformations in American history.

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 548
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Insubordinates: Servants and Slaves in a Militarized Age



Places of Labor's "Hard Usage" in the South Before Slavery



Memory and Misery: White Servants and the Origins of Slavery in the South



The Work of Insurrection: Black and White Labor in the Eighteenth-Century South



"Domestic Enemies": Bound Laborers in New England and the Middle Colonies, 1620-1776



The Emergence of Free Labor, Fettered, in the North


American Work: A Photo Essay



Workers and Overworkers: Black and White Labor in The Era of Slavery



Black and White Hands in Slaveholders' Republic, 1790-1860



The Racial Politics of Southern Labor in Peacetime and War, 1820-1870



White Men "In a Tight Place": Black Poverty and Black Protest in the Antebellum North



White Citizens and Black Denizens: Workers in the North During the Era of the Civil War



The Rise and Decline of the Racialized Machine: Technological and Political Change in the Workplace



The Modernization of Prejudice: Economic Change and the Social Division of Labor, 1870-1930



Can You See a Tomorrow There? Industrial Transformation and Federal Civil Rights Legislation, 1929-1978



Industrial Devolution and the Persistence of the "Race Watch" at the End of the Twentieth Century


Epilogue: Families, Fraternities, and Sites of Diversity: Affirmative Action in Historical Perspective


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index