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LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF ANTI-BLACK DISCRIMINATION

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Date Issued:
1972
Summary:
This thesis examines the problems that American black workers have encountered in seeking entrance into the American labor movement. In particular, it looks at the historical changes in the unionization of black workers, as well as the structural and functional aspects of the largest single organized labor body in the United States--the AFL-CIO. The appendix contains interviews with both Mr. Donald Slaiman, Director of the Civil Rights Department of the AFL-CIO, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Title: THE LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF ANTI-BLACK DISCRIMINATION.
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Name(s): GAGNON, CAROL ANNE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Portnoy, Samuel A., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 151 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis examines the problems that American black workers have encountered in seeking entrance into the American labor movement. In particular, it looks at the historical changes in the unionization of black workers, as well as the structural and functional aspects of the largest single organized labor body in the United States--the AFL-CIO. The appendix contains interviews with both Mr. Donald Slaiman, Director of the Civil Rights Department of the AFL-CIO, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Identifier: 13501 (digitool), FADT13501 (IID), fau:10346 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Subject(s): African Americans--Employment.
Labor unions--United States--African American membership.
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