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Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO: The “New” Labor History Meets the “Wages of Whiteness”

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Bruce Nelson
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International Review of Social History , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , December 1996 , pp. 351 - 374
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11 In a similar critique of Honey's argument, George Fredrickson concludes that “the effort to create a unified black-and-white labor movement in the South was doomed from the start, and anti-communism was simply a convenient vehicle for the expression o! the deeply rooted white supremacist convictions that white workers shared with their employers”. Fredrickson, George M., “Red, Black, and White”, New York Review of-Books, 8 06 1995, pp. 33–35Google Scholar, 38, quoted on p. 35.

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15 Nancy Quam-Wickham, “Who Controls the Hiring Hall? The Struggle for Job Control in the ILWU during World War II”, in Rosswurm, The CIO's Left-Led Unions, p. 67. I have expanded on this theme at length in “Harry Bridges, the ILWU, and Race Relations in the CIO Era”, Working Paper No. 2, Occasional Paper Series, Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington (Seattle, 1995); and at greater length in “The ‘Lords of the Docks’ Reconsidered: Race Relations among West Coast Longshoremen, 1933–1961”, in Calvin Winslow (ed.), Essays in Waterfront Labor History (Urbana, forthcoming).

16 Nelson, “Harry Bridges, the ILWU, and Race Relations in the CIO Era”, p. 17. On the TWU, see Freeman, Joshua B., In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966 (New York, 1989), pp. 26–27Google Scholar, 30, 154–156; and Meier, August and Rudwick, Elliott, “Communist Unions and the Black Community: the Case of the Transport Workers Union, 1934–1944”, Labor History, 23 (1982), pp. 165–197CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Meier and Rudwick conclude, “The TWU's early history demonstrates that the response of a Communist-dominated union leadership to race discrimination in the job market was anything but simple. That leadership, regardless of its ideals, was dependent for survival in office on a white membership characterized by pervasive prejudices”: ibid., p. 195. See also Naison, Mark, Communists in Harlem during the Depression (Urbana, 1983), p. 265Google Scholar; and Lichtenstein, Alex, “Labor Radicalism, Race Relations, and Anticommunism in Miami During the 1940s” (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC, 30 03 1995)Google Scholar, a study of the TWU's largest local outside New York City.

17 Boyle, Kevin, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968 (Ithaca, 1995), pp. 107–131Google Scholar, quoted on p. 117. In a recent article, Boyle offers a more positive, numerically precise, and formulaic assessment of the UAW's record. He states that “when the International enjoyed substantial leverage over its regional staff and local officials, it broke the color line, though political considerations often dictated just how quickly it did so. When the International did not enjoy such leverage [i.e. in the Deep South, and among skilled tradesmen], the color line remained intact.” Boyle estimates that workers in the Deep South constituted 5 per cent of the UAW membership; and skilled tradesmen, 15 per cent: Boyle, Kevin, “‘There Are No Union Sorrows that the Union Can't Heal’: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the United Auto Workers, 1940–1960”, Labor History, 36 (1995), pp. 5–23CrossRefGoogle Scholar, quoted on p. 17. For a critical portrayal of the UAW's record on race at Chrysler's Dodge Main plant in Hamtramck, Michigan, during the Reuther era, see Jefferys, Steve, Management and Managed: Fifty Years of Crisis at Chrysler (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 162–187Google Scholar.

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24 Friedlander, Peter, The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936–1939: A Study in Class and Culture (Pittsburgh, 1975)Google Scholar. Important examples of the New Left critique of CIO unionism include Radosh, Ronald, “The Corporate Ideology of American Labor Leaders from Gompers to Hillman”, in Weinstein, James and Eakins, David W. (eds), For a New America (New York, 1970), pp. 125–152Google Scholar; Brecher, Jeremy, Strike! (San Francisco, 1972)Google Scholar; Lynd, Staughton, “The Possibility of Radicalism in the Early 1930s: The Case of Steel”, Radical America, 6 (1972), pp. 37–64Google Scholar; Lynd, Alice and Lynd, Staughton, Rank and File: Personal. Histories by Working-Class Organizers (Boston, 1973)Google Scholar.

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28 In a provocative and insightful response to Michael Goldfield's article cited in note 22, Gary Gerstle argues that in assessing white working-class resistance to black demands for equality, historians must “broaden the focus”, and take into account not only the neighbor-hood as well as the workplace, but also white “fears of sexual mixing and its consequences”. See Gerstle, Gary, “Working-Qass Racism: Broaden the Focus”, International Labor and Working-Class History, 44 (1993), pp. 33–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar, quoted on p. 35; Hirsch, Arnold R., Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960 (New York, 1983), pp. 68–99, 171–211Google Scholar, quoted on p. 196; Greenberg quoted in Edsall, Thomas Byrne with Edsall, Mary D., Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (New York, 1991), p. 182Google Scholar.

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31 Almaguer, Tomas, Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California (Berkeley, 1994), pp. 12, 9Google Scholar. In regard to the definition of groups as “white” or “nonwhite”, James Barrett and David Roediger have begun to explore the process by which immigrants from southern and eastern Europe shed their status as “inbetween people” and gradually became white. In doing so, they have added another – vitally important – layer of complexity to the study of race and ethnicity in American history. See Barrett, James and Roediger, David, “Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the New Immigrant Working Class” (paper presented at the Commonwealth Fund Conference, University College London, 18 02 1995)Google Scholar; and Roediger, David R., “Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of ‘White Ethnics’ in the United States”, in Roediger, , Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History (London, 1994), pp. 181–198Google Scholar. For provocative studies of how Irish immigrants laid claim to the wages of whiteness, see Allen, Theodore W., The Invention of the White Race, vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control (London, 1994)Google Scholar, and Ignatiev, Noel, How the Irish Became White (New York, 1995)Google Scholar.

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33 Nelson, “The ‘Lords of the Docks’ Reconsidered”.

34 Ibid.; Romo, Ricardo, East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio (Austin, 1983), p. 170Google Scholar; Sanchez, George J., Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (New York, 1993)Google Scholar.

35 On the development of a labor market “niche” as a means of furthering the economic status and security of an ethnic group, see Modell, Suzanne, “The Ethnic Niche and the Structure of Opportunity: Immigrants and Minorities in New York”, in Katz, Michael B. (ed.), The “Underclass” Debate: Views from History (Princeton, 1993), pp. 161–193Google Scholar. To my knowledge, the relationship between black and Mexican workers is largely unexplored territory. Zaragosa Vargas emphasizes the common experience of discrimination, but also the competition between Mexicans and African Americans, in Proletarians of the North, pp. 86–123. Vicki Ruiz offers some dramatic examples of solidarity among blacks, Mexicans, and whites in Cannery Women, Cannery Lives.

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37 Zieger, The CIO, p. 350. Some CIO unions, especially those with Left leadership and a large percentage of female members, had a much better record on women's issues than others. Vicki Ruiz offers a positive assessment of the Left-led United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers (UCAPAWA) in Cannery Women, Cannery Lives, pp. 87–102; and Mark McColloch does the same for the United Electrical Workers (UE) in “The Shop-Floor Dimension of Union Rivalry: The Case of Westinghouse in the 1950s”, in The ClO's Left-Led Unions, pp. 183–199.

38 Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, “‘The Mind that Bums in Each Body’: Women, Rape, and Racial Violence”, in Snitow, Ann, Stansell, Christine and Thompson, Sharon (eds), Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York, 1983), pp. 328–349Google Scholar; Fredrickson, George M., The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (1971Google Scholar; rpt. Middletown, 1987), pp. 273–282; Williamson, Joel, The Crucible of Race: Black/White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (New York, 1984)Google Scholar; MacLean, Nancy, “The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism”, Journal of American History, 78 (1991), pp. 917–948CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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