Racial Competition and Class Solidarity by Terry Boswell
The authors combine theories of racial competition, specifically split labor market theory, with game theory models of collective action to compare the patterns of race relations that accompanied nine American labor organizing drives and strikes. They conclude that racial competition thwarted solidarity when minorities were recent immigrants or where employers used racist paternalism. Where conditions were more favorable, unions overcame racial divisions by institutionalizing their rhetoric about racial equality in the form of black organizers and black union officials, in what came to be known as the "miners' formula." This formula worked, and the CIO unions today remain among the country's most integrated institutions and most powerful advocates of working class interests.Terry Boswell is Professor of Sociology at Emory University and the author (with Christopher Chase-Dunn) of The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy. Cliff Brown is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. John Brueggemann is Associate Professor of Sociology at Skidmore College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791466728 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791466728 |
| Title | Racial Competition and Class Solidarity |
| Author | Terry Boswell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2007-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 268 |
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