New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism 1892-1923

by Daniel Rosenberg

Book Overview

This book investigates the conditions which led to a remarkable instance of interracial solidarity known as "half and half," an expression used to identify the cooperation and cohesion among 10,000 Black and white dockworkers during the early twentieth century. Through interracial agreements which divided work and union leadership equally between Blacks and whites, dockworkers reduced the workload and pace imposed by shipping firms, and formed the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088706650X
• ISBN13: 9780887066504
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.