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Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery
- Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929
Engelsk Hardback
Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery
- Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929
Engelsk Hardback

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An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.   During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize inclusive trade unions like those formed by their counterparts in the United Kingdom? Comparing American and British capitalism in the port cities of Baltimore and Liverpool and the steel cities of Pittsburgh and Sheffield, Rudi Batzell reveals that the answer lies in the legacies of slavery and entrenched structures of racial inequality. Strikebreaking succeeded more often in the United States because landless Black Americans were, out of economic desperation, more likely to become scabs and fracture the class solidarity of any union movement. Batzell shows, in short, how racism was and is deeply connected to class, migration, and capitalism in a global economy marked by slavery and empire. In emphasizing the geography of economic inequality, this book offers new clarity on the late-nineteenth-century successes and failures of working-class formation. More broadly, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery makes it clear that the pursuit of justice today will require sustained economic reparations for slavery and colonialism.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
392
ISBN-13:
9780226838762
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226838765
Udg. Dato:
29 apr 2025
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
29 apr 2025
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