BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781608467877 Media Type: Paper...
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields. This collection brings together nearly three decade...
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The Work of Repair: Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 20...
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."—NewsdayAn engaging social history that reveals the critical ...
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Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warml...
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Commanders of the Dining Room: Biographic Sketches and Portraits of Successful Head Waiters
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Originally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head waiters and front-o...
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Black Worker in the Deep South: A Personal Account
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Hosea Hudson's story, as remarkable as it is, is one that could be told many times by determined southern blacks who have fought for freedom and ju...
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest ...
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Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph
HardcoverOriginal price $52.00 - Original price $52.00Original price $52.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was a...
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.This collection brings together nearly three decades o...
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No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rheto...
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