In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.

After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently, these former slaves attempted

Contains eleven essays that address issues faced by African-American workers since the late-nineteenth century, such as economic insecurity, the rise and fall o

Memoir by former sharecropper, steel worker and organizer of struggles a black man in the south.