Forging a Laboring Race: The African American W. Lawrie Paperback<|

Forging a Laboring Race\nby Paul R.D. Lawrie\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Paul R.D. Lawrie\nTitle: Forging a Laboring Race\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Industrial relations, occupational health and safety\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479851409\nISBN-10: 147985140X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nForegrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experienceHow does it feel to be a problem? asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the Negro problem was inextricably linked to the concurrent labor problem, occasioning debates regarding blacks' role in the nation's industrial past, present and future. With blacks freed from the seemingly protective embrace of slavery, many fel.