![]() In Virginia, the vestiges of that ideology survived for most of the twentieth century.Įarly in the 1900s, Virginia was entering a new phase in its economic life. Employee and employer alike often embraced this antiunion, pro-apartheid approach to the age of industrialization and it shaped the development of the southern workforce. It was the belief that the necessary maintenance of the social, political, and economic status quo depended on a combination of unorganized, low-wage labor and racial segregation, if not outright white supremacy. And, like Virginia, they changed as the twenty-first century approached. ![]() They shaped the organization and evolution of companies and labor unions alike. They influenced hiring, wages, and seniority. These powerful forces profoundly affected the choices and fortunes of workingmen and -women, black and white. ![]() The history of labor in Virginia during the twentieth century reflects both the ever-changing nature of the workplace and the endurance of Virginians’ long-held ideas about race, culture, and work. ![]()
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