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- Title
The Ordeal of the Jungle: Race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1903–1922 by David Bates (review).
- Authors
Balto, Simon
- Abstract
Taken together, these episodes signaled the inability of white workers to abandon racism and led many Black workers to view unionism with heightened and understandable skepticism. To take just one example of how this may be limiting, we might think of the discussions of the Chicago Urban League (CUL) and its willingness to encourage strikebreaking by Black workers as preferential to standing in class solidarity with racist white workers. While federated unionism offered Black workers some advantages, Black locals, to which most Black union members belonged, were marginalized within the federated structure.
- Subjects
LABOR unions; JUNGLES; SOCIAL conflict; HISTORY of Chicago (Ill.); LABOR movement
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2021, Vol 18, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article