Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981 [Paperback]

In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers’ contribution to the American labor movement.

New Foreword by TK.

A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.

Foner's careful and detailed scholarship makes this the best one-volume study of blacks and the labor movement currently available.
The Black Scholar

The standard of accuracy and reasoned argument maintained in this work should make it the standard on its subject for a long time.
Professor Davivd Herreshoff,Journal of American History

This readable and authoritative work represents a significant contribution to the literature of black unionism in the United States.
Joel Hettger, U.S. Department of Labor History,Library Journal

Foner's book provides considerable illumination of the an important and often overlooked aspect of American labor history.
Professor Norman Lederer, American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Simply the best treatment of the history of the black worker yet to appear and is likely to be the standard work in the field for a long time to come.
William K. Tabb, Review,Review of Black Political Economy

Organized Labor and the Black Worker & documents a very long history of trade union and white working-class intransigence to Black working-class advancement alongside episodes of interracial class unity and the elusive promise of a radical future&. His book is filled with anecdotes of working-class racism undermining genuine workers power in favor of the paltry protections of white privilegefrom the erection of occupational color bars by unions to the outbreaks of wildcat strikes against the hiring of black workers. But it is also peppered with episodes of anti-racism and inlãå