White female workers actively blocked black women’s hiring through threats and complaints.

Evidence

Hostility between black and white female workers was the norm. White women did not want to compete with black women for jobs nor did they want to work alongside black women. To prevent white employers from hiring black females, white female workers threatened to cease work. Often white women workers would use complaints about black women workers as a way of discouraging an employer from hiring them. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 392

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Employer-employee relations made white ‘common oppression’ rhetoric offensive to black women — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 425; Black women organized separately after white women’s racism barred them; White feminists pursued work rights only for white women workers — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 387

Related

• Employer-employee relations made white ‘common oppression’ rhetoric offensive to black women (similarity 0.88)
• Black women’s employment is framed as harming black men, unlike white women’s (similarity 0.85)
• White feminists pursued work rights only for white women workers (similarity 0.82)
• Black women wage-earners faced assault from both white and black men. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Black women organized separately after white women’s racism barred them #corroborates (0.70)
• Employer-employee relations made white ‘common oppression’ rhetoric offensive to black women #exemplifies (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 425
• White feminists pursued work rights only for white women workers #exemplifies (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 387