The Power of the Black Working Class
Over the last four hundred years, black workers have played a vital role in shaping the US’s political economy. In order to understand America, we have to understand the struggles of the black working class.
1 Article by: Joe William Trotter, Jr
Joe William Trotter, Jr is a professor of history and social justice and the director and founder of the Center for African-American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) at Carnegie Mellon University. His most recent book is Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.