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Iron and steel : class, race, and community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920
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ISBN: 0807879711 1469603713 9798890866349 Year: 1995 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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In this study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighborhood politics. According to McKiven, the white men who moved to Birmingham soon after its founding to take jobs as skilled iron workers shared a free labor ideology that emphasized opportunity and equality between white employees and management at the expense of less skilled black labor

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