Jane Berger

A New Working Class

The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book traces efforts by Black public-sector workers and their unions to combat racial and economic injustice in Baltimore. For decades, civil rights activists had been fighting against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making. In the 1960s, activists seized the opportunity of the Great Society-and the government jobs it created on the local level-to advance their goals. They met with considerable success. The public sector became a critical job niche for Black workers, especially women, a largely unheralded achievement of the civil rights movement. A vocal contingent of Black public-sector workers pursued the activists' goals from their government posts and sought to increase and improve public-service delivery. They also fought for their rights as workers and won union representation. During an era often associated with deindustrialization and union decline, Black government workers and their unions were just getting started"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253450
• ISBN-10: 0812253450
• Artikelnr.: 61116292

Autorenporträt

Jane Berger is Associate Professor of History at Moravian College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction. Public-Sector Workers and the Battle over Cities
Chapter 1. "Boom Times" in Baltimore?
Chapter 2. "A New Mood" Is Spreading: The Great Society as Job Creation
Chapter 3. "We Had to Fight to Get This": Antipoverty Workers Take on City
Hall
Chapter 4. "Better Wages and Job Conditions with Dignity": Unionizing the
Public Sector
Chapter 5. "A Posture of Advocacy for the Poor": Fighting Poverty in an Era
of Austerity
Chapter 6. "The Hell-Raising Period Is Over": New Federalism in Baltimore
Chapter 7. "Polishing the Apple While the Core Rots": Carter and the Cities
Chapter 8. "A Tourist Town at the Expense of the Poor": The Making of Two
Baltimores
Chapter 9. "A Revolving Door for Impoverished People": Reaganomics and
American Cities
Chapter 10. "There's Tragedy on Both Sides of the Layoffs": Privatization
and the Urban Crisis
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments