III. The Plumbers and Negro Exclusion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface to the Atheneum Edition VII
3. Preface XV
4. Contents XVII
5. Part I. The Heritage of Slavery
6. 1.The Slave Regime: Competition Between Negro and White Labor 3
7. 2. The Aftermath of Slavery 16
8. Part II. The Negro Worker and the Rise of Trade Unionism
9. 3. Industrial Brotherhood and Industrial Education 39
10. 4. Craft Unionism and Exclusion 53
11. 5. The Official Position of the American Federation of Labor 87
12. 6. Independent Negro Unionism 116
13. 7. Strike Breaking and Race Consciousness 128
14. Part III. The Negro as an Industrial Reserve
15. 8. Tapping The Negro Industrial Reserve 149
16. 9. The Negro Longshoreman 182
17. 10. The Negro in the Coalmines 206
18. 11. The Negro and the Unionization of Steel 246
19. 12. The Negro in the Stockyards 264
20. 13. The Negro on the Railroads 284
21. Part IV. Industrial Unionism and Labor Solidarity
22. 14. Radical and Industrial Unionism 319
23. 15. The Negro and the I. W. W. 328
24. 16. The Negro and the Garment and Textile Unions 337
25. 17. The Negro and the United Mine Workers 352
26. Part V. Negro Labor Since the War
27. 18. The “New” Negro and Post-War Unrest 385
28. 19. Socialism, Communism, and the Negro 402
29. 20. The Pullman Porters 430
30. 21. The Negro Community and the Labor Movement 461
31. Appendices
32. I. The Knights of Labor 473
33. II. The Industrial Reserve in Coal Mining 475
34. III. The Plumbers and Negro Exclusion 477
35. IV. Public Licensing as a Method of Eliminating Negro Locomotive Firemen 482
36. Bibliography of Works Cited 485
37. Index 499