According to Katznelson (2006), both pro-union and later, anti-union laws were motivated by beliefs that would protect white people’s advantages in workplaces and limit Black American’s ability to garner workplace protections. Even before then, the New Deal denied protections from the federal government to two professions made up of a majority of Black men and Black women respectively prior to the Great Migration. Who are these groups?
Chauffeurs and textile workers
Industrial workers and seamstresses
Agricultural workers and domestic laborers
Restaurant workers and housekeepers
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