Race and Southern White Workers' Support for Unions

Race and Southern White Workers' Support for Unions

Racial attitudes are often seen as a major cause of joining or not joining a union in the southern states with right-to-work laws. Data derived from secondary analysis of a 1967 survey of 887 residents of an industrial town in NC are used to test this claim. Blacks are more favorable both to unions...

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Veröffentlicht in:Phylon 1978-12, Vol.39 (4), p.311-321
1. Verfasser: Cramer, M. Richard
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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African Americans
Composite indices
Factory labor
Labor
Labor unionization
Neighborhoods
Race relations
Race/Races/Racial/Racially (see also Relations, Race)
Racial integration
South/Southern
Southern states
Statistical significance
Trade unions
Union organizing
Union/Unions/Unionism
White people
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Zusammenfassung:Racial attitudes are often seen as a major cause of joining or not joining a union in the southern states with right-to-work laws. Data derived from secondary analysis of a 1967 survey of 887 residents of an industrial town in NC are used to test this claim. Blacks are more favorable both to unions & to racial integration than whites. Antiblack attitudes are associated with whites' support for unions as a whole, but significant associations for blue-collar white workers are few & follow no consistent pattern. 5 Tables. W. H. Stoddard.
ISSN:0031-8906
2325-7199
DOI:10.2307/274897