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Title: Sticks and Strikes—The Store as a Negative Incentive

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: On November 23 in 1887, the Los Angeles Herald published a news item on a 'Fierce Fight Between Negroes and Whites on a Louisiana Plantation'. Ten thousand sugar laborers stopped working in Thibodauz. They demanded to receive wages in currency instead of tokens. The strike was called "A Brisk Battle' and described as an 'Exciting Scene on a Louisiana . . .

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Authors: Lurvink, Karin

Editors: Lurvink, Karin

Pages: 160–179

Volume Title: Beyond Racism and Poverty

Publisher: Brill

Publisher Location: Leiden, Netherlands

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States