No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) - Jacqueline Jones

No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Buch | Softcover
544 Seiten
2025
Basic Books (Verlag)
978-1-5416-0702-6 (ISBN)
23,65 inkl. MwSt
A "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labour history and urban history" (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried)
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY

Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality.

In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small: a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during, and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans refused to secure equal employment opportunity for Black Bostonians, condemning most of them to poverty. Still, Jones finds, some Black entrepreneurs ingeniously created their own jobs and forged their own career paths.

Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston-and the United States-from securing true equality for all.

Jacqueline Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and the Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas, Austin. Winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, Jones lives in Austin, Texas.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.1.2025
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5416-0702-3 / 1541607023
ISBN-13 978-1-5416-0702-6 / 9781541607026
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