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American Work
Jacqueline Jones
其他書名
Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
出版
W. W. Norton, Incorporated
, 1999
主題
Business & Economics / Labor / General
History / General
History / United States / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Social History
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Discrimination
Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN
0393318338
9780393318333
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eZC1Zfv4R50C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This is history at its best--the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking research and passionately alive to its present-day implications for a just society. Jacqueline Jones shows unmistakably how nearly every significant social transformation in American history (from bound to free labor, from farm work to factory work, from a blue-collar to a white-collar economy) rolled back the hard-won advances of those African Americans who had managed to gain footholds in various jobs and industries. This is a story not of simple ideological "racism" but of politics and economics interacting to determine what kind of work was "suitable" for which groups. Here is a "useful and sobering" (Kirkus Reviews) account of why the connection between success and the work ethic was severed long ago for a substantial number of Americans. American Work goes far beyond the easy sloganeering of the current debates on affirmative action and welfare versus workfare to inform those debates with rich historical context and compelling insight.