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A Matter of Moral Justice

- Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
Af: Jenny Carson Engelsk Paperback

A Matter of Moral Justice

- Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
Af: Jenny Carson Engelsk Paperback
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A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity
Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York’s power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city’s laundry workers. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union politics across the country in the twentieth century.

Meticulous and engaging, A Matter of Moral Justice examines the role of African American and radical women activists and their collisions with labor organizing and union politics.

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A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity
Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York’s power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city’s laundry workers. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union politics across the country in the twentieth century.

Meticulous and engaging, A Matter of Moral Justice examines the role of African American and radical women activists and their collisions with labor organizing and union politics.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 312
ISBN-13: 9780252085895
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0252085892
Kategori: Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger
Udg. Dato: 13 jul 2021
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 155mm
Forlag: University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato: 13 jul 2021
Forfatter(e): Jenny Carson
Forfatter(e) Jenny Carson

Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger

ISBN-13 9780252085895

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 312

Udgave

Længde 30mm

Bredde 234mm

Højde 155mm

Udg. Dato 13 jul 2021

Oplagsdato 13 jul 2021

Forlag University of Illinois Press

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