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1. oyogoa, francisca. "Bringing Employers Back In: Employers' Utilization of Racial Ideology in Industrial Labor 1890-1945" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 Online
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The entrance of large numbers of black workers into the northern industrial labor force between 1890 and 1945 was central to shaping twentieth and twenty-first century black-white relations. That period, and that experience, has been central to the ways U.S. academic scholars have thought about black workers and workplace race relations. Furthermore, the marginalization of black workers during this era had profound consequences for the material well-being of African-Americans for decades afterwards.
The majority of the literature regarding this era has focused on white workers’ (and their unions) role in marginalizing black males at work. I argue that while this literature on white workers has contributed a great deal to our understanding, there is a need to explicitly focus on employers’ actions vis a vis black male workers. Additionally, theories about employers’ treatment of black workers in industrial labor have generally been static and provided a “one size fits all” framework. I argue that it is more useful to understand employers’ actions as being contingent upon the various ways black and white workers interact with one another in a racially split labor market.
This paper provides a typology of the varying ways employers’ utilized racial ideology in order to forestall labor unrest.
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