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Bookstore Overstock-light shelf wear only. At a time when much of the

Bookstore Overstock-light shelf wear only. At a time when much of the national conversation on race begins with Get over it, reminding people of slavery can be serious business. Jacqueline Jones's American Work offers especially serious reminders. Jones not only refuses to forget the history of slavery, she makes it central to her understanding of American labor history and the historic forces shaping the entire American workforce.

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543, [1] pages. Introduction. Illustrations, Notes. Selected Bibliography.

543, [1] pages. Introduction. Illustrations, Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author on the fep. Slight DJ wear. Inscribed to Reverend [Carlton W. ] Veazey and the staff of RCRC [Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice]. Some pages dinged. Jacqueline Jones (born 17 June 1948) is an American social historian. She held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas from 2008 to 2017 and is Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her expertise is in American social history in addition to writing on economics (including feminist economics), race, slavery, and class. She is a Macarthur Fellow, Bancroft Prize Winner, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice. American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor was a History Book Club Selection and in 2002 she was named a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jones has reflected in an interview that her work involves "writing about issues of race and class and how the United States has changed over the years, how different groups have viewed each other and interacted, how certain groups have been assigned certain kinds of work." Her history writing increasingly features case studies focusing on the overlooked but nonetheless exemplary lives of individuals. American Work is a historical look at the social transformations of American labor through four centuries highlights how the changing economy, race relations, and the state of the nation affected the various races, particularly the African-American race, within the working class. Derived from a Kirkus review: A well-researched study of the interelation of race and labor in American history. Bancroft Prizewinning historian Jones sets out to explore how and why black and white workers have been treated differently throughout American history, both before and after emancipation. Her study begins with a look at the failed policy of enslaving Indians and the subsequent practice of importing African slaves. Some black slaves in the South won or bought their freedom, but most free blacks found themselves either with few prospects as far as skilled labor was concerned or compelled to work for the same people to whom they had been enslaved. Meanwhile, in the mostly ``free'' North, job competition between free blacks and whites often exploded in violence; immigrants from Ireland and elsewhere would destroy black property and assault African-Americans who they felt were vying for their jobs. This is one of the primary paradoxes that Jones addresses: White Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries could simultaneously view blacks as intellectually and functionally inferior and yet fear that these perceived inferiors could take their jobs. The truth, of course, is that prejudicial hiring practices kept this from happening, even after the passing of civil rights legislation in the 20th century. Unions, while giving lip service to brotherhood and equality, were likewise discriminatory toward racial minorities. Jones devotes much of the book to the period from early settlements up to the Civil War. This is a useful and sobering work.