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No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
Jacqueline Jones
其他書名
The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
出版
Hachette UK
, 2023-01-10
主題
History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
History / African American & Black
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN
1541619803
9781541619807
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pR9uEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history” (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning author of
All That She Carried
)
Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality.
In
No Right to an Honest Living
, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small: a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during, and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans refused to secure equal employment opportunity for Black Bostonians, condemning most of them to poverty. Still, Jones finds, some Black entrepreneurs ingeniously created their own jobs and forged their own career paths.
Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston—and the United States—from securing true equality for all.