You Can't Keep a Workin' Man Down: Black Masculinity, Labor, and the Frontier
Author(s): Annelise E. Morris
Year: 2016
Summary
Historical archaeologists have long examined changing structures of labor in the context of modern global capitalism. This paper will focus on rural sites in the Midwest, challenging normative notions of labor structures. I will examine how, in the face of changing labor economies, Black men on the frontier deployed specific types of skilled labor to create social networks, familial bonds, and to subvert economic inequalities. I will examine shifts from agrarian economies to wage economies, specifically focusing on the power of union organization in rural areas to shift structures of inequality.
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You Can't Keep a Workin' Man Down: Black Masculinity, Labor, and the Frontier. Annelise E. Morris. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434572)
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Keywords
General
African Diaspora
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Frontier
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Illinois
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Labor
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Masculinity
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Unions
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th & 20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 860