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Title:

AMERICAN WORK
FOUR CENTURIES OF BLACK AND WHITE LABOR

By:

Jacqueline Jones

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0393318338

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9780393318333

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Publisher:

WW NORTON & CO

Pub. date:

17 January, 1999

Pages:

544

Description:

"[Jones's] painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present." -David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun

Synopsis:

This is history at its best-the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking research and passionately alive to its present-day implications for a just society. Jacqueline Jones shows unmistakably how nearly every significant social transformation in American history (from bound to free labor, from farm work to factory work, from a blue-collar to a white-collar economy) rolled back the hard-won advances of those African Americans who had managed to gain footholds in various jobs and industries. This is a story not of simple ideological "racism" but of politics and economics interacting to determine what kind of work was "suitable" for which groups. Here is a "useful and sobering" (Kirkus Reviews) account of why the connection between success and the work ethic was severed long ago for a substantial number of Americans. American Work goes far beyond the easy sloganeering of the current debates on affirmative action and welfare versus workfare to inform those debates with rich historical context and compelling insight.

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