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- Book Title
- Matter of Moral Justice : Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
- Publication Name
- A Matter of Moral Justice
- Title
- A Matter of Moral Justice
- Subtitle
- Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0252043901
- EAN
- 9780252043901
- ISBN
- 9780252043901
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Genre
- Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Economics / General, Women's Studies, African American
- Release Date
- 13/07/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Series
- Working Class in American History
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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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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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252043901
ISBN-13
9780252043901
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25050014222
Product Key Features
Book Title
Matter of Moral Justice : Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Labor & Industrial Relations, Economics / General, Women's Studies, African American
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Hd8039
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"With this beautifully written, emotionally powerful book, Jennifer Carson has rescued the history of organizing among African-American and Afro-Caribbean laundry workers from the shadows. Power laundries were the largest industrial employer of Black women in the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century, but professional historians have paid little attention to these workers' long campaigns for justice. Carson narrates this crucial history with grace and verve, nuance and drama, centering the biographies of the remarkable organizers Dollie Robinson and Charlotte Adelmond and their struggle to bring decent working conditions and union recognition to a labor force made up almost entirely of women of color. As Carson relates struggles between Black women organizers and white male union leaders, fruitful but fraught alliances with Jewish organizers in the Women's Trade Union League and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, she makes clear again and again how these movements were direct forebears of the Black Lives Matter and Fight for $15 movements. This history and its powerful actors are as relevant in 2020 as they have ever been. Brava."--Annelise Orleck, author of Rethinking American Women's Activism, "Grounded in recent scholarship, A Matter of Moral Justice combines structural analysis of the industry with deft mini-biographies and astute assessments of industrial feminism, left organizations, and the CIO itself." -- Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, "An engaging book on a workforce that has received surprisingly little attention from labor historians. Carson provides a highly readable analysis of how racialized and gendered were job assignments, union organizing campaigns, and labor politics."--Dennis Deslippe, author of Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution, "Even progressive organizations like the ACWA actively participated in the reproduction of racial and gender hierarchies within labour markets and within their own organizations. It is a sobering finding, albeit one tempered in Carson's account by extraordinary heroism of the laundry workers themselves." -- Labour
Table of Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. "We Win a Place in Industry": Black Women and the Birth of the Power Laundry Industry Chapter 2. A Miniature Hell: Working in a Power Laundry Chapter 3. The 1912 Uprising of New York City's Laundry Workers Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall of Local 284: Black Women Laundry Workers' Activism in the Era of the Chapter 5. "It Was Up to All of Us to Fight": Communist Laundry Organizing during the Great Depress Chapter 6. Aristocrats of the Movement: The Uprising of Brooklyn's Laundry Workers Chapter 7. "It Was Like the Salvation": New York City's Laundry Workers Join the CIO Chapter 8. The "Democratic Initiative": Fighting for Control of the Laundry Workers Joint Board Chapter 9. "Putting Democracy into Action": The Laundry Workers' Double V Campaign Chapter 10. "Everybody's Libber": The Laundry Workers' Civil Rights Unionism in the Postwar Era Chapter 11. "We're Just Not Ready Yet": The Ousting of Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson from Epilogue: Building a Democratic Initiative in the Twenty-First Century Notes Index Back cover
Copyright Date
2021
Lccn
2021-005238
Dewey Decimal
331
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Working Class in American History Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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