Abstract
This paper uncovers the contradictions between official ‘anti-racist’ union principles and local practice by exploring the ways that racism shaped a racially progressive union’s politics. Using interview material, it centres on the past and present experiences of African American union members working as longshoremen in southern California. Contrary to accounts that locate racism and the racial division of workers solely as a practice utilised by capital, the author argues that it was the labour union local itself, not capital, that readily relied on racism to undermine Black workers, thereby recreating the very same destructive forces that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s principles purported to oppose.
Subject
General Social Sciences,Sociology and Political Science,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Archeology,Anthropology,Archeology,Cultural Studies
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