Describes and analyzes the results of a study of the American labor movement comparing the working class to the black minority. Begins with the history of slavery and explores its long term effects of work in mines, steel, stockyards, railroads and other fields

In Framing a Radical African Atlantic Holger Weiss presents the first analysis of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers and the attempts by the Communist International to infiltrate in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period

The rise of the ICU, 1919-27 -- Garveyism and the ICU, 1920-1927 -- The ICU and the segregation state, 1921-27 -- The communists and the ICU, 1923-28 -- The ICU and International socialism, 1927-29 -- Moderates and the ICU, 1924-1928 -- The fragmentation of the ICU, 1928-1930 -- Legacies of the ICU.

Police unions have garnered the attention of the media and some scholars in recent years. That attention has often focused on exploring the seemingly inexplicable power of police unions to shield problem officers from accountability as a matter of routine. This paper aims to explain that police...

Free labor -- From Reconstruction to Jim Crow, 1877-1895 -- Blacks and labor in the progressive era, 1900-1920 -- From progressivism to the New Deal, 1920-1935 -- The New Deal and World War -- The civil rights era, 1950-1965 -- The affirmative action dilemma, 1965-present