Various Artists - Off To Work (Various Artists) [New CD]

Description: Various Artists - Off To Work (Various Artists) [New CD] Artist: Various Artists Title: Off To Work (Various Artists) Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2021 Label: Koko-Mojo UPC: 4260072729445 Genre: Blues Album Tracks1. Louis Jordon - Workin' Man2. Buster Brown - John Henry3. John Lee Hooker - I Lost My Job4. Long Tall Lester - Working Man5. Val Martinez - Payday6. Wilbert Harrison - Off to Work Again7. Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man8. St Louis Jimmy - Hard Luck Boogie9. Chico Leverett - Work Work10. B.B. King - Hard Working Woman11. Esquerita - Laid Off12. Louisiana Red - Working Man Blues13. Little Willie Littlefield - Happy Pay Day14. Tommy Youngblood - Laid Off My Job Too Long15. B. Brown and His Rockin' McVouts - Hard Working Man16. Big Bill Broonzy - Moppers Blues17. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Auto Mechanic Blues18. B. K. Anderson - the Minimum Wage19. Chuck Berry - Let It Rock20. Oscar Brown JR - Work Song21. The Heartbeats - I Found a Job22. Smiley Lewis - Blue Monday23. Preacher Stephens - Unemployment Blues24. Lightnin' Hopkins - Don't Need No Job25. Jay McShann - Hard Working Man's Blues Slave owners had an economic incentive to exploit the multifaceted talents of blacks in the craft shop as well as in the kitchen and field. But after emancipation, whites attempted to limit blacks to menial jobs. Throughout the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, blacks as a group were barred from machine work within the industrial sector, and from white-collar clerical and service work. "Modernization" wore a white face. Focusing on the city of Memphis, Tennessee, we offer a story about African American men and women workers who literally risked their lives on the shop floor, day in and day out, trying to provide for their families. In the 1940s and 1950s, Memphis was a place where blacks were concentrated in the lowest-paying, dirtiest, and most hazardous jobs, and where the political establishment (the noxious, violent Boss Crump machine) routinely colluded with employers to harass and assault union organizers. Within this state-sanctioned system of segregation, industrial unionism represented the most progressive force for change, their toughest battles in the period immediately following World War II. Many had moved to Memphis from the surrounding countryside, where their parents had labored as sharecroppers, receiving their pay more often in promises than in cash. Factory work represented a step up and out of the plantations, sawmills, and lumber camps, and the steady wages offered by the biggest plants, especially Firestone, were higher than the pay earned by African American post office employees, nurses, or schoolteachers.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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