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A New Working Class - The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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A New Working Class - The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment
discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in
municipal decision-making. As their influence in city halls across
the country increased, activists took advantage of the Great
Society—and the government jobs it created on the local
level—to advance their goals. A New Working Class traces efforts
by Black public-sector workers and their unions to fight for racial
and economic justice in Baltimore. 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 services. 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.
During the 1970s and 1980s, presidents from both political parties
pursued policies that imperiled these gains. Fighting funding
reductions, public-sector workers and their unions defended the
principle that the government has a responsibility to provide for
the well-being of its residents. Federal officials justified their
austerity policies, the weakening of the welfare state and
strengthening of the carceral state, by criminalizing Black urban
residents—including government workers and their unions.
Meanwhile, workers and their unions also faced off against
predominately white local officials, who responded to austerity
pressures by cutting government jobs and services while
simultaneously offering tax incentives to businesses and investing
in low-wage, service-sector jobs. The combination of federal and
local policies increased insecurity in hyper-segregated and
increasingly over-policed low-income Black neighborhoods, leaving
residents, particularly women, to provide themselves or do without
services that public-sector workers had fought to provide.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Politics and Culture in Modern America |
Release date: |
October 2021 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Jane Berger
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-5345-0 |
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LSN: |
0-8122-5345-0 |
Barcode: |
9780812253450 |
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