{"product_id":"9781541607026","title":"No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER 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 \u003ci\u003eAll That She Carried\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNo Right to an Honest Living\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this Pulitzer Prize–winning book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston—and the United States—from securing true equality for all.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370765094973,"sku":"9781541607026","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781541607026_p0.jpg?v=1771566730","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781541607026","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}