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42 Lab. Stud. J. 5 (2017)

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                                                                     *  Official Journal of
                                                                        United Association for
                                                                        Labor Education

                                                                    Labor Studies journal
                                                                    2017, Vol. 42(I) 5-9
Introduction                                                             @ 2016 UALE
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                                                           DOI: 10.1 177/0160449XI6677914
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   By the end of the decade, the fatal shooting of a twenty-two-year-old black man, Daniel
   Bell, as he ran from white officers, was among policing-related incidents that escalated
   racial tensions.
                          -Milwaukee,  1958 as summarized by Tula Connell, this volume


The 2014  police killing of black college bound teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson,
Missouri, involved two union  members:  the police officer and the mother of the vic-
tim, a member   of United Food  and  Commercial  Workers  (UFCW) Local 88. This
special issue on Labor and Racial Justice offers a critical examination of the role and
responsibility of workers and labor unions in constructing racist hierarchies and in
dismantling them  to create more just, fair, and equitable systems. AFL-CIO president
Richard  Trumka  stated, Racism is part of our inheritance as Americans, and this
special issue wrestles with key dimensions of its living legacies. The call for papers
invited scholarship on projects, initiatives, and campaigns that explored the complex
realities of labor's twin impulses  of perpetuating racism  and  propelling justice.
Collectively, the articles capture how labor's dualities emanate from different actors
and varied locations. They bring specificity to the circumstances and players that prod
systems to change.
   The  2016 conference  theme-and by extension, this   special journal issue-is  a
testimony to the advocacy and  foresight of Elise Bryant. Her decades of unwavering
commitment   to educate at the intersections of race, labor, and the arts are remarkable.
Inspired by the excitement present at the widely attended #BlackLivesMatter  panel
organized by  University of California-Berkeley's  Steven Pitts at the 2015 United
Association of Labor Educators  conference, Elise argued it was fitting and timely to
focus the next conference on labor and racial justice. Rather than a stand-alone spot-
light, we hope this special issue encourages mainstream labor scholarship and conven-
ings to integrate a complex racial justice analysis as a core lens.
   Each article furnishes an in-depth analysis that deftly blends history, sociology, and
politics with community  actors and national trends from 1860  to 1960. Combined,
they furnish a solid history of the construction of key socio-economic structures and
invite reflection on labor's role in the past, present, and future of this evolving democ-
racy. Cedric de Leon  asks provocatively, Why   did civil and labor rights become
decoupled?  He delivers a surprising answer rooted in Civil War politics that traces the
unravelling of an agenda where Radical Republicans pursued both Reconstruction and
the eight-hour day. Venise Wagner  and Tula Connell study Chicago  and Milwaukee,

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