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Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs) - Brossura

Geschwender, James A.

 
9780521291910: Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)

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This book provides a historical account and case study of a little-publicised social movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

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This book, originally published in 1977, provides a historical account and case study of a little-publicised social movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The League developed among automobile workers in Detroit shortly after the 1967 Detroit urban disorders. An internal split led to its demise in 1971.

Contenuti

List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Sociology and the dialectics of class and race; Part I. Historical Context: 2. Black workers, the auto industry and the UAW; 3. Detroit: evolution of a black industrial city; Part II. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: 4. The birth of the League; 5. Union electoral politics; 6. Ideology; 7. League organisational activities; 8. The League splits and dies; 9. Why was the League initially so successful?; 10. Why did the League die?; Part III. The Present and the Future: 11. Insurrectionary potential remains; 12. The meaning of it all; Notes; Index.

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9780521215848: Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521215846 ISBN 13:  9780521215848
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1977
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