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A Matter of Moral Justice - Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
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A Matter of Moral Justice - Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
Series: Working Class in American History
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A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and
dignity Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte
Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York's power laundry
industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how
substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination,
and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city's laundry
workers. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to
enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and
Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort.
But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial
Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical,
community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by
men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and
social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the
plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race
and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union
politics across the country in the twentieth century. Meticulous
and engaging, A Matter of Moral Justice examines the role of
African American and radical women activists and their collisions
with labor organizing and union politics.
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