A delegation of labour scholars and practitioners first came to our university, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in 2006, to engage with colleagues about establishing the Global Labour University on our campus. It was to be the second site after Germany, and we were all...

The organization of Negroes in the Knights of Labor, by S. H. Kessler.--Samuel Gompers and the Negro workers, 1886-1914, by B. Mandel.--Black workers and labor unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897-1904, by P. B. Worthman.--Labor conflict and racial violence: the Black worker in Chicago,...