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Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Michael R Botson

Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Michael R Botson

Series: Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History

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On July 12, 1964, in a momentous decision, the National Labor Relations Board decertified the racially segregated Independent Metal Workers Union as the collective bargaining agent at Houston's mammoth Hughes Tool Company. The unanimous decision ending nearly fifty years of Jim Crow unionism at the company marked the first ruling in the Labor Board's history that racial discrimination by a union violated the National Labor Relations Act and was therefore illegal. This ruling was for black workers the equivalent of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court in the area of education. Botson traces the Jim Crow unionism of the company and the efforts of black union activists to bring civil rights issues into the workplace. His analysis clearly demonstrates that without federal intervention, workers at Hughes Tool would never have been able to overcome management's opposition to unionization and to racial equality. Drawing on interviews with many of the principals, as well as extensive mining of company and legal archives, Botson's study "captures a moment in time when a segment of Houston's working-class seized the initiative and won economic and racial justice in their work place."

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Imprint: Texas A & M University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History
Release date: October 2005
First published: September 2005
Authors: Michael R Botson
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-58544-438-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > Trade unions
Books > History > General
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LSN: 1-58544-438-3
Barcode: 9781585444380

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