Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer ...
Showing posts with label Labor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labor. Show all posts
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland
From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland. It was the largest unincorporated coal-mining c...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality...
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power
The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1950s were laid by the massive mi...
Saturday, March 28, 2015
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in Ameri...
Friday, September 26, 2014
Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South
Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone W...
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique compa...
Monday, September 22, 2014
Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor
This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination of current-day sex tourism. Based o...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, 3 Vol set
The Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History provides sweeping coverage of US labor history. Containing over 650 entries, the En...
Monday, September 1, 2014
The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941
In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, contracto...
A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794
"Of the hundreds of logbooks and journals I have examined, this is the most valuable for the slave trade in western Africa.... [Mouse...
Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South
A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted...
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social...
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Amer...
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Friday, August 1, 2014
Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy
In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integra...
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