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Marching Together uses gender as a category of analysis along
with race and class to reinterpret the history of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters from its inception in 1925 until the mid-1950s. Chateauvert
skillfully accomplishes four goals. First, she provides a detailed account of
the individual and organizational contributions of porters' wives to
building the Brotherhood in local communities, belying the union's
legendary account of courageous men of color battling a racist labor movement
and exploitative corporations on their own. Second, she provides an analysis of
the gender norms that governed the Brotherhood's organization and policies.
Third, Chateauvert provides a critique of the union's treatment of women
porters. Fourth, she provides a portrait of the civil rights activism of the
Brotherhood and its Ladies' Auxiliary between 1941 and 1956. Based on a
wealth of archival and published sources, Marching Together provides a
multifaceted and sophisticated analysis of the way that gender norms and
customary practices operated among Northern working-class African
Americans.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Pittsburgh Survey in Historical Perspective | Margo Anderson & -- Maurine W. Greenwald -- 2. The Social Survey Movement and Early Twentieth-Century Sociological Methodology | Martin Bulmer -- 3. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Survey Movement: An Episode in the History of Expertise | Stephen Turner -- 4. The Failure of Fair Wages and the Death of Labor Republicanism: The Ideological Legacy of the Pittsburgh Survey | Steven R. Cohen -- 5. The Pittsburgh Survey and "Greater Pittsburgh": A Muddled Metropolitan Geography | Edward K. Muller -- 6. Seeking the Meaning of Life: The Pittsburgh Survey and the Family | S. J. Kleinberg -- 7. Does the Evidence Support the Argument?: Margaret Byington's Cost of Living Survey of Homestead | Margo Anderson -- 8. Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900s: Art and Photography in the Service of Social Reform | Maurine W. Greenwald -- 9. Civic Leaders and Environmental Reform: The Pittsburgh Survey and Urban Planning | John F. Bauman & -- Margaret Spratt -- 10. The Pittsburgh Survey as an Environmental Statement | Joel A. Tarr -- 11. The Spirit of '92: Popular Opposition in Homestead's Politics and Culture, 1892-1937 | Richard Oestreicher -- 12. Optimism, Dilemmas, and Progress: The Pittsburgh Survey and Black Americans | Laurence A. Glasco -- 13. The Immigrants Pictured and Unpictured in the Pittsburgh Survey | Ewa Morawska -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.