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• History of black workes & organized labour
○ Historians: a vast open shop thorn
§ Organized labour: frustrated
□ IWW, CIO
○ Explanation: behavior of workers
§ Racial rather than class identities
□ Inter-racial working co-peration : end (Jim Crow)
§ Traditional view: suprematic ideology
□ Whites: insulation
® Drive blacks away
◊ 1982[WH] : whether got jobs
○ Recent : convergence of 2 fields
§ Biracial unionism
□ e.g. Albama's coalfields & Gulf port waterfront wokers
§ Re-evaluation
□ Black worker: transform race relations
® Workplace-oriented
® Beyond the factory
◊ NAACP and Urban League
◊ e.g. Voter registration,desegregation campaigns,rallying others
® Reason for limited nature: post-war anti-communism
○ Debate
§ shortcomes
□ No interplay btw community dynamics and character od labor movement
□ Old labor history
□ No gender
§ This essay: trace the major contours
□ 3 broad subject areas
® AFL
® Black workers' role in industrial union movement
® Relationship
□ Older interpretion: AFL →black exclusion
® Rencent study: black unionsits →inclusion
□ Orthodoxy:1985[DB] Union = less hopeful
® Now: blacks's support is critical to CIO success
◊ Blacks: eagerly join union
□ Tranditionally: labor & civil rights (independent)
® Labor movement stop, blacks ↑
◊ e.g. UAW helped establish SCLC & SNCC
◊ [APR] leadership in both Unions
◊ At best :CIO →groundwork for civil rights movement
® Important and concrete relationship
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