“A Question of Freedom”: Black Workers, Union Membership, and Political Participation

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Labor Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-27 DOI:10.1177/0160449X221126169

Tiamba Wilkerson

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Abstract

Despite the historic connection between labor and citizenship rights for Black people, the specific role of labor organizations in mobilizing Black workers remains understudied. This research examines the effect of union membership on Black political and civic engagement. Analyzing survey data from 1973 to 1994, results show Black union members were significantly more likely than Black nonunion workers to participate in a range of political activities, and to greater degrees, especially members with less education. Understanding unions as important sites of political activism for Black workers is critical for the growth and maintenance of both the labor movement and the Black freedom struggle.

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“自由问题”：黑人工人、工会成员和政治参与

尽管劳工和黑人公民权利之间存在历史联系，但劳工组织在动员黑人工人方面的具体作用仍然研究不足。这项研究考察了工会成员对黑人政治和公民参与的影响。分析1973年至1994年的调查数据，结果显示，黑人工会成员比黑人非工会工人更有可能参与一系列政治活动，而且参与程度更高，尤其是受教育程度较低的成员。理解工会是黑人工人政治激进主义的重要场所，对于劳工运动和黑人自由斗争的发展和维持至关重要。

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Labor Studies Journal Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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1.50

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期刊介绍： The Labor Studies Journal is the official journal of the United Association for Labor Education and is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing research on work, workers, labor organizations, and labor studies and worker education in the US and internationally. The Journal is interested in manuscripts using a diversity of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, directed at a general audience including union, university, and community based labor educators, labor activists and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities. As a multi-disciplinary journal, manuscripts should be directed at a general audience, and care should be taken to make methods, especially highly quantitative ones, accessible to a general reader.