| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Creation of Birmingham and the Problem of Labor; 2 Skilled Work, White Workers; 3 Unskilled Work, Black Workers; 4 Life Away from Work, 1880-1900; 5 Workers and Politics, 1880-1894; 6 The Open Shop City; 7 Remaking the Working Class; 8 Life Away from Work, 1900-1920; 9 Workers and Politics, 1894-1920; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
| Summary |
In this study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighborhood politics. According to McKiven, the white men who moved to Birmingham soon after its founding to take jobs as skilled iron workers shared a free labor ideology that emphasized opportunity and equality between white employees and management at the expense of less skilled black labor |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Iron and steel workers -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History
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African American iron and steel workers -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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African American iron and steel workers
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Iron and steel workers
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Alabama -- Birmingham
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469603711 |
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1469603713 |
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