American work : four centuries of black and white labor / Jacqueline Jones.
| Author/creator | Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : W.W. Norton, ©1998. |
| Description | 543 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I: 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 eigteenth-century South -- "Domestik 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 -- Part II: Workers and overworkers: black and white labor in the era of slavery. Black and white hands in a 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. |
| Contents | Part III: 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 -- Familes, fraternities, and sites of diversity: affirmative action in historical perspective. |
| Local note | Little-305328--305131011022J |
| Local note | Little-308510--305131012815U |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-528) and index. |
| LCCN | 97020337 |
| ISBN | 0393045617 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E185.8 .J767 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |