As someone whose great uncles worked in the steel factories nearby, whose parents before that labored in the cotton fields, I can also testify the multi-century efforts of Black workers who fought the “hands that was fedding them”. America's Johannesburg [1] and Hammer and Hoe [2] for reference.

[1] https://ugapress.org/book/9780820356273/americas-johannesbur...

[2] https://uncpress.org/book/9781469625485/hammer-and-hoe/