- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonate
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and sharecropping—which were the least regulated and lowest paying occupations for women in the US economy—were the few available ways for Black women and girls to make a living in Jane Crow America. In response to these circumstances, Nannie Helen Burroughs, the pioneering Black American educator and civil rights leader, established the National Training School for Women and Girls (NTS) in Washington, DC. Nannie Helen Burroughs tells the story of the powerful labor movement that resulted from Burroughs's work at the NTS and in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The NTS proved to be a revolutionary labor and educational initiative that redefined household employment as a profession where social justice for the Black community could be achieved. The NTS was integral to a Black clubwomen's labor movement that paved the way for a broader transformation of the economic landscape for Black women and girls. Nannie Helen Burroughs establishes Burroughs as one of America's most influential labor leaders in the twentieth century and reveals the powerful lessons her work and ideas still offer for America's laborers, labor organizers, scholars, and women's rights and racial justice activists today. It also establishes Burroughs and her colleagues in the National Association of Colored Women as the architects of an unprecedented labor movement.
Contents
Introduction Black Women's Organized Anxiety in Jane Crow America
Part I. An Emerging Labor Leader
1. Burroughs's Burgeoning Labor Consciousness: A Precursor to the National Training School, 1879-1896
2. "Dying to Be and to Do": Burroughs as a Working-Class Laborer and Rising Leader, 1896-1909
Part II. "The Only School Ever Founded by an Organization of Negro Women"
3. "The National Training School for Women and Girls Will Materialize": A Timeline of Patriarchy, Land, and Ambition
4. "To Command Respect and Good Living": Curriculum Building to Organize Women of the Race, 1909-1961
Part III. The Energy of Ten Hands and a Radical Vision
5. "Show the World What Negro Women Can Do in a Labor Movement": Black Women's Organizing against Jane Crow Unionism, 1917-1928
6. "We Are in Politics to Stay": Securing Labor Protections and Legislation, 1913-1955
7. "Interested in Making a Life": Beginning Anew through the Arts and Entrepreneurship, 1929-1940
8. The Worker: A Literary Vehicle for Change, 1912-1961
Epilogue: "Greedy" and Generous Women as Historical Guides
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
