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portada American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
1999
Language
English
Pages
548
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21x14x2.9 cm
Weight
0.61 kg.
ISBN13
9780393318333
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American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

Jacqueline Jones (Author) · W. W. Norton & Company · Paperback

American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor - Jones, Jacqueline

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Synopsis "American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor "

This is history at its best--the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking research and passionately alive to its present-day implications for a just society. Jacqueline Jones shows unmistakably how nearly every significant social transformation in American history (from bound to free labor, from farm work to factory work, from a blue-collar to a white-collar economy) rolled back the hard-won advances of those African Americans who had managed to gain footholds in various jobs and industries. This is a story not of simple ideological racism but of politics and economics interacting to determine what kind of work was suitable for which groups. Here is a useful and sobering (Kirkus Reviews) account of why the connection between success and the work ethic was severed long ago for a substantial number of Americans. American Work goes far beyond the easy sloganeering of the current debates on affirmative action and welfare versus workfare to inform those debates with rich historical context and compelling insight.

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