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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Rudi Batzell's Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slav
 ery
DESCRIPTION:The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Labor History Resea
 rch Center are pleased to welcome Rudi Batzell to discuss his book Organi
 zing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality\, Racial Boundar
 ies\, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism\, 1870–19
 29. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.\n\nThe book com
 pares the development of capitalism in the port cities of Baltimore and L
 iverpool and the steel cities of Pittsburgh and Sheffield. Through his re
 search\, Rudi Batzell reveals that the differences in the development of 
 trade unions in the United States and Britain lies in the legacies of sla
 very and entrenched structures of racial inequality. Strikebreaking succe
 eded more often in the United States because landless Black Americans wer
 e\, out of economic desperation\, more likely to become scabs and fractur
 e the class solidarity of any union movement. In emphasizing the geograph
 y of economic inequality\, this book offers new clarity on the late-ninet
 eenth-century successes and failures of working-class formation.\n\nRudi 
 Batzell grew up in the rural Midwest of Michigan and Wisconsin. He gradua
 ted from Columbia University with a double major in History and Sociology
  in 2009. He then attended Cambridge University\, where he completed an M
 aster of Philosophy (MPhil) in Economic and Social History. He received h
 is PhD from Harvard University in 2017. During graduate school he helped 
 lead the unionizing effort and served as a staff organizer for \n\nhttp:/
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