Author: Alabama. Department of Industrial Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
Annual Report of the Department of Industrial Relations to the Governor of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Department of Industrial Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
Annual Report - Alabama Department of Industrial Relations
Author: Alabama. Department of Industrial Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
Annual Report of the Department of Industrial Relations to the Governor of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Department of Industrial Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
"Everybody was Black Down There"
Author: Robert H. Woodrum
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In 1930 almost 13,000 African Americans worked in the coal mines around Birmingham, Alabama. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union's local membership. At the close of the twentieth century, only about 15 percent of Birmingham's miners were black, and the entire mining workforce had been sharply reduced. Robert H. Woodrum offers a challenging interpretation of why this dramatic decline occurred and why it happened during an era of strong union presence in the Alabama coalfields. Drawing on union, company, and government records as well as interviews with coal miners, Woodrum examines the complex connections between racial ideology and technological and economic change. Extending the chronological scope of previous studies of race, work, and unionization in the Birmingham coalfields, Woodrum covers the New Deal, World War II, the postwar era, the 1970s expansion of coalfield employment, and contemporary trends toward globalization. The United Mine Workers of America's efforts to bridge the color line in places like Birmingham should not be underestimated, says Woodrum. Facing pressure from the wider world of segregationist Alabama, however, union leadership ultimately backed off the UMWA's historic commitment to the rights of its black members. Woodrum discusses the role of state UMWA president William Mitch in this process and describes Birmingham's unique economic circumstances as an essentially Rust Belt city within the burgeoning Sun Belt South. This is a nuanced exploration of how, despite their central role in bringing the UMWA back to Alabama in the early 1930s, black miners remained vulnerable to the economic and technological changes that transformed the coal industry after World War II.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In 1930 almost 13,000 African Americans worked in the coal mines around Birmingham, Alabama. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union's local membership. At the close of the twentieth century, only about 15 percent of Birmingham's miners were black, and the entire mining workforce had been sharply reduced. Robert H. Woodrum offers a challenging interpretation of why this dramatic decline occurred and why it happened during an era of strong union presence in the Alabama coalfields. Drawing on union, company, and government records as well as interviews with coal miners, Woodrum examines the complex connections between racial ideology and technological and economic change. Extending the chronological scope of previous studies of race, work, and unionization in the Birmingham coalfields, Woodrum covers the New Deal, World War II, the postwar era, the 1970s expansion of coalfield employment, and contemporary trends toward globalization. The United Mine Workers of America's efforts to bridge the color line in places like Birmingham should not be underestimated, says Woodrum. Facing pressure from the wider world of segregationist Alabama, however, union leadership ultimately backed off the UMWA's historic commitment to the rights of its black members. Woodrum discusses the role of state UMWA president William Mitch in this process and describes Birmingham's unique economic circumstances as an essentially Rust Belt city within the burgeoning Sun Belt South. This is a nuanced exploration of how, despite their central role in bringing the UMWA back to Alabama in the early 1930s, black miners remained vulnerable to the economic and technological changes that transformed the coal industry after World War II.
Statistical Reference Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Annual Report ...
Author: Alabama. Department of Industrial Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Some vols. include statistical supplement.
Annual Report
Author: Appalachian Regional Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Hammer and Hoe
Author: Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.