Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960(SUNY series in American Labor History)

Labor Divided is the first anthology on race, ethnicity and the history of American working-class struggles to give substantial attention to the experiences of African-American, Asian, and Hispanic workers as well as to the experiences of workers from European backgrounds. The essays in Labor Divided cover a time period of more than a century. They focus on the experiences of service workers as well as factory workers, women as well as men. Because the American labor force presently is absorbing significant numbers of workers from abroad, and especially Asian and Hispanic workers, this volume will be of great interest to readers seeking historical perspectives on contemporary economic developments.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments I. INTRODUCTION 1. American Capitalism, Labor Organization, and the Racial/Ethnic Factor: An Exploration Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson II. NON-WHITE WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES Asian 2. Ethnicity and Class in Hawaii: The Plantation Labor Experience, 1835-1920 Ronald Takaki 3. Chinese American Agricultural Workers and the Anti-Chinese Movement in Los Angeles, 1870-1890 Raymond Lou 4. Ethnic Life and Labor in Chicago's Pre-World-War-II Filipino Community Barabara M. Posadas Hispanic 5. Border Proletarians: Mexican-Americans and the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1939-1946 Mario T. Garcia 6. Puerto Ricans in the Garment Industry of New York City, 1920-1960 Altagracia Ortiz African-American 7. The Red Scare and Black Workers in Alabama: The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1945-53 Horace Huntley III. EUROPEAN-BACKGROUND WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES Northern and Western Europe 8. Immigration, Ethnicity and the American Working-Class Community: Fall River, 1850-1900 John Cumbler 9. Scottish-Americans and the Beginnings of the Modern Class Struggle: Immigrant Coal Miners in Northern Illinois, 1865-1889 John H. M. Laslett 10. The German Brewery Workers of New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century Dorothee Schneider 11. Catholic Corporatism, French Canadian Workers, and Industrial Unionism in Rhode Island, 1938-1956 Gary Gerstle 12. British and Irish Militants in the Detroit UAW in the 1930s Steve Babson Southern and Eastern Europe 13. Women's Work, Family Economy and Labor Militancy: The Case of Chicago's Packing-House Workers, 1900-1922 James R. Barrett 14. Anthony Capraro and the Lawrence Strike of 1919 Rudolph J. Vecoli 15. The Transformation of Working-Class Ethnicity: Corporate Control, Americanization, and the Polish Immigrant Middle Class in Bayonne, New Jersey, 1915-1925 John J. Bukowczyk Notes Contributors Index

About the Author :
Robert Asher is Professor of History at The University of Connecticut. Charles Stephenson is Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. They are editors of Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class History published by SUNY Press.