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...
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Author: Jacqueline Jones
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Language: English
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American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor by Jones, Jacqueline

American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

$70.30

American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

$70.30
Author: Jacqueline Jones
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Jacqueline Jones
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/17/1999
Pages: 548
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.53w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780393318333

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