North of the Colour Line: Sleeping Car Porters and the Battle against Jim Crow on Canadian Rails, 1880-1920

This paper analyses the evolution of Jim Crow employment patterns in the Canadian railway industry from the 1880s to World War I. It presents race as a central organizing principle in employers' decision to hire black railwaymen for their sleeping and dining car departments. Canadian railway ma...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Labour (Halifax) 2001-03, Vol.47 (47), p.9-41
1. Verfasser:	Mathieu, Sarah-Jane (Saje)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African Americans Black Canadians Black people Canada Employment Employment discrimination History Immigration Institutionalization Labor Labor relations Labor shortages Labor unionization Labor unions Labour history Men Native Americans Race Racism Rail lines Railroad rails Railroad sleeping cars Railroads Railway transport Railway workers Railways Social history Turn of the century Unionization White people White supremacy Workers Workforce World War I
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