Organized labor and the black worker in the 1970s - Philip S. Foner

An essay by Philip S. Foner about the relation between the AFL-CIO unions and Black Americans in the 1970s.

Originally appeared in Insurgent Sociologist, 8:2/3 (1978:Fall) p.87

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