{"product_id":"a-matter-of-moral-justice-jenny-carson-9780252043901","title":"A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eA long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York's power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city's laundry workers. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union politics across the country in the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003eMeticulous and engaging, \u003ci\u003eA Matter of Moral Justice\u003c\/i\u003e examines the role of African American and radical women activists and their collisions with labor organizing and union politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jenny Carson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252043901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252043901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Jenny Carson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45265128128767,"sku":"9780252043901","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c3e81b5-76fd-4573-b983-ec0b0acc61f4.jpg?v=1713420232","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-matter-of-moral-justice-jenny-carson-9780252043901","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}