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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
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Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870-1929

Racial hierarchies in U.S. labor arose from material inequalities—access to property, land, and earnings—rather than solely from individual prejudices.
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