LEADER 05352cam 22004572 4500001 ssj0000115273 003 WaSeSS 005 20230712221457.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 090624e20090630mau s|||||||| 2|eng|d 020 9780674020283 020 0674020286 (E-Book) |cUSD 27.50 Retail Price (Publisher) |9Active Record 024 3 9780674020283 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0000115273 037 |b00011705 040 BIP US |dWaSeSS 049 EREENEHH 050 0 HD8039 082 00 331.6/396/073 |221 100 1 Arnesen, Eric |eAuthor |=^A273534 245 10 Brotherhoods of Color |h[electronic resource]: |bBlack Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality 260 Cambridge : |bHarvard University Press 300 352 p. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 8 Annotation |bFrom the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution--the story of African Americans on the railroad. African Americans have been a part of the railroad from its inception, but today they are largely remembered as Pullman porters and track layers. The real history is far richer, a tale of endless struggle, perseverance, and partial victory. In a sweeping narrative, Arnesen re-creates the heroic efforts by black locomotive firemen, brakemen, porters, dining car waiters, and redcaps to fight a pervasive system of racism and job discrimination fostered by their employers, white co-workers, and the unions that legally represented them even while barring them from membership. Decades before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the mid-1950s, black railroaders forged their own brand of civil rights activism, organizing their own associations, challenging white trade unions, and pursuing legal redress through state and federal courts. In recapturing black railroaders' voices, aspirations, and challenges, Arnesen helps to recast the history of black protest and American labor in the twentieth century.Table of Contents: Prologue 1. Race in the First Century of American Railroading 2. Promise and Failure in the World War I Era 3. The Black Wedge of Civil Rights Unionism 4. Independent Black Unionism in Depression and War 5. The Rise of the Red Caps 6. The Politics of Fair Employment 7. The Politics of Fair Representation 8. Black Railroaders in the Modern Era Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index Reviews of this book: In this superbly written monograph, Arnesen...shows how African American railroad workers combined civil rights and labor union activism in their struggles for racial equality in the workplace...Throughout, black locomotive firemen, porters, yardmen, and other railroaders speak eloquently about the work they performed and their confrontations with racist treatment...This history of the 'aristocrats' of the African American working class is highly recommended.--Charles L. Lumpkins, Library JournalReviews of this book: Arnesen provides a fascinating look at U.S. labor and commerce in the arena of the railroads, so much a part of romantic notions about the growth of the nation. The focus of the book is the troubled history of the railroads in the exploitation of black workers from slavery until the civil rights movement, with an insightful analysis of the broader racial integration brought about by labor activism.--Vanessa Bush, BooklistReviews of this book: [An] exhaustive and illuminating work of scholarship.--Publishers WeeklyReviews of this book: Arnesen tells a story that should be of interest to a variety of readers, including those who are avid students of this country's railroads. He knows his stuff, and furthermore, reminds us of how dependent American railroads were on the backbreaking labor of racial and ethnic groups whose civil and political status were precarious at best: Irish, Chinese, Mexicans and Italians, as well as African-Americans. But Arnesen's most powerful and provocative argument is that the nature of discrimination not only led black railroad workers to pursue the path of independent unionism, it also propelled them into the larger struggle for civil rights.--Steven Hahn, Chicago Tribune 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 650 4 Railroads |xUnited States |xHistory 650 4 African Americans |xCivil Rights 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 700 1 ARNESEN, Eric |eAuthor |=^A273534 856 40 |zFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eastcarolina/detail.action?docID=3300488 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 955 Books In Print, (c) 2013 R.R. Bowker LLC 596 1 3 4 998 5588975