The Black Worker: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present

by Philip S. Foner

Book Overview

Focuses on the lives of free Black workers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877221367
• ISBN13: 9780877221364
• Release Date: June 1978
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What resources are contained in the Black Worker

This book is a celebration of the progress of the Black Worker through the usage of primary source documents. Usually any regular texts will just give you a novel-like form of the opportunities or lack thereof given to Black Workers during this period. Regular book might also explain what was achieved by African Americans in the working world. This book, however, surpasses all other volumes by doing the opposite. By simply looking at the volume's composition you can see a distinct difference from any other volume near its class. Through the authenticity of primary source material used throughout this volume, this source has proved its validity to many researching historians. It includes copies of speeches, and commentary by ordinary African Americans who discuss their employment positions, just to name a few of its enclosing documents. There are countless documents provided in this first volume that were ordered and given background by Philip Foner and Ronald Lewis. These two historians shine light to these documents by giving accurate information on the origin of the source, and what had been happening around its origin. They give infomation that might discuss the author's possible reasoning for writing such a document, or who his audience was. This type of information might not be provided looking at a speech at the surface. It is evident that by ordering each primary source and giving some conclusionary notes that these two historians spent a great deal of time in producing this first volume. This volume would aid any researcher interested in obtaining information on a black worker's opportunities in the north and old south. It is a fine addition to its collection and one that should be sought by all persons interested in the progression of African American working-class in the United States.