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The Tribe of Black Ulysses
William Powell Jones
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African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
出版University of Illinois Press, 2005
主題Business & Economics / Labor / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Industries / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Development / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political Science / Labor & Industrial RelationsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN02520297989780252029790
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=phJTzCTxaGIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those workers have been almost completely ignored by scholars. Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as on manuscript sources, local newspapers, and government documents, The Tribe of Black Ulysses explores black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in three sawmill communities (Elizabethtown, South Carolina, Chapman, Alabama, and Bogalusa, Louisiana). By restoring black lumber workers to the history of southern industrialization, William P. Jones reveals that industrial employment was not incompatible - as previous historians have assumed - with the racial segregation and political disfranchisement that defined African American life in the Jim Crow South. At the same time, he complicates an older tradition of southern sociology that viewed industrialization as socially disruptive and morally corrupting to African American social and cultural traditions rooted in agriculture. William P. Jones is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Barrett, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Nelson Lichtenstein.