SALON: Providence College Associate Professor of Sociology Cedric de Leon on the 19th century origins of the separation of the labor movement from the civil rights movement, and how the repercussions of that separation are still felt today, as described in his new book, The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century.
5pm reception, 5:30 program, followed by book sale and signing

In his new book, de Leon argues that political parties since the U.S. Civil War have prompted the American labor movement ​​​to see the struggle for black civil rights as past or passing, and therefore less ​urgent than the needs of white working class men. Join us for a conversation about how the history of the political isolation of labor ​from civil rights affects the way we view class and race relations today.