Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy
Contributions by Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, AmherstBill Fletcher, Education Director, AFL-CIOMichael Goldfield, Robin D.G. Kelley Wayne State University, Columbia UniversityMandi Isaacs Jackson, Yale UniversityManning Marable, Columbia UniversityAldon Morris, Northwestern UniversityImmanuel Ness, Steven Pitts Brooklyn College-City, Un, Chris Rhomberg U.C. Berkely Labor Center, Louise Simmons, University of ConnecticutJoseph Wilson, Roland Zullo, University of Michigan Edited by Manning Marable M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies, Immanuel Ness, Joseph Wilson

Publication date:
25 May 2006Length of book:
232 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
235x161mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780742546905
In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved through conflict and collective struggle. The foundation of the class divide in the United States remains, while racial and ethnic segregation, privilege, and domination, and the institution of neoliberalism have become a detriment to all workers.
Race and Labor in the United States is a powerful compilation of penetrating essays revealing essential contradictions of race and class in America. It is bound to become a standard in the field and is essential reading for students and scholars of U.S. labor and racial social dynamics in the 21st century.