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Conflict of Interests
Alan Draper
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Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Industrial & Labor Relations. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPQB; JPVH1; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 371.
On the basis of extensive archival research, Alan Draper illuminates the role organized labor played in the southern civil rights movement. He documents the substantial support the AFL-CIO and its southern state councils gave to the struggle for black equality, suggesting that labor's political leadership recognized an opportunity in the civil rights movement. Frustrated in their efforts to organize the South, labor leaders understood the potential of newly enfranchised blacks to challenge conservative southern Democrats.
At the same time, white union members in the South were more interested in defending their racial privileges than in allying themselves with blacks. An ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Industrial & Labor Relations
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780875463162
SKU
V9780875463162
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Reviews for Conflict of Interests
Draper's Conflict of Interests is the most comprehensive and most impressively researched study yet published of organized labor in the South during the great conflict over desegregation.
The Journal of American History
Conflict of Interests is an extraordinarily good book, and important work that needed writing.
Business Library Review
The Journal of American History
Conflict of Interests is an extraordinarily good book, and important work that needed writing.
Business Library Review