（2024普利策奖）无权问津诚实的生活：内战时期波士顿黑人工人的斗争 No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Bostons Black Workers in the Civil War Era

基本信息

Format:Hardback 544 pages, 18 BW halftones, 3 maps

Publisher:Basic Books

Imprint:Basic Books

ISBN:9781541619791

Published:12 Jan 2023

Dimensions:244 x 168 x 46 (mm)

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书籍简介

★普利策历史奖得主

★“敏感、身临其境、详尽 地描绘了 19 世纪波士顿黑人工人和白人的虚伪，天才的劳工史和城市史实践者"

——（《她所携带的一切》（All That She Carried）一书的国家图书奖获奖作者蒂亚-迈尔斯（Tiya Miles））。

慷慨激昂的反奴隶制言论使前王朝时期的波士顿成为全国知名的激进废奴主义中心。但事实上，这座城市远非平等的灯塔。

在《无权过诚实的生活》一书中，历史学家杰奎琳-琼斯（Jacqueline Jones）揭示了波士顿是如何成为美国的缩影：在这里，平等主义的高谈阔论轻而易举，但工作场所的公正却难以实现。在南北战争之前、期间和之后，白人废奴主义者和共和党人拒绝为波士顿黑人争取平等的就业机会，使他们中的大多数人陷入贫困。不过，琼斯发现，一些黑人企业家还是巧妙地创造了自己的工作，开辟了自己的职业道路。

本书通过突出普通黑人工人的日常奋斗，展示了工作场所的不公正是如何阻碍波士顿乃至美国实现真正的人人平等的。

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY

A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history” (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried)

Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. 

In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small: a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during, and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans refused to secure equal employment opportunity for Black Bostonians, condemning most of them to poverty. Still, Jones finds, some Black entrepreneurs ingeniously created their own jobs and forged their own career paths. 

Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston—and the United States—from securing true equality for all. 

作者简介

杰奎琳-琼斯（Jacqueline Jones）是德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校埃伦-C-坦普尔妇女史荣誉教授，曾任美国历史协会主席。她曾以《爱的劳作，悲伤的劳作》获得班克罗夫特奖，并两次入围普利策奖决赛，现居住在马萨诸塞州康科德。

Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Professor of Women’s History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin and the past president of the American Historical Association. Winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow and a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, she lives in Concord, Massachusetts.