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Article: The black labor movement and the fight for social advancement.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 1987
- Author:
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The black labor movement and the fight for social advance
To the ideas of individualism and collective advance that Alice Kessler-Harris sees as central--and that clearly are essential--to the labor movement, we unquestionably must add one more, and that is the idea of exclusion. This concept of exclusion becomes so important because as much as anything else, exclusion has become the Achilles' heel of organized labor. But I want to emphasize that the evidence of the existence of racial exclusion in the labor movement merely shows how American organized labor was the ideal of exclusion. The idea of selective advance is one of the central ideas in the history of ...