Tags Carpenters and Joiners Union
Tag: Carpenters and Joiners Union
Joe Debro on racism in construction, Part 5
The movement from farm to city forced the proletariat to unite in order to wrest decent pay and working conditions from large corporations, which tended to control entire industries as well as to reduce competition from immigrants and others, including Negroes. The history of the American labor unions, like that of big business itself, is filled with examples of racism, nationalism and exclusionism.