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Life and labor in the new New South

Title
Life and labor in the new New South / edited by Robert H. Zieger ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy J. Minchin.
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.

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Additional Authors
Zieger, Robert H.
Description
x, 363 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Working in the Americas
Uniform Title
Working in the Americas.
Subject
  • Labor > Southern States > History
  • Labor movement > Southern States > History
  • Southern States > Social conditions
  • Southern States > Economic conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"How can Greenville get new industry to come here if we get the label of a C.I.O. town?": capital migration and the limits of unionism in the postwar south / Tami J. Friedman -- John McClellan, the teamsters, and biracial labor politics in Arkansas, 1947-1959 / Michael Pierce -- "A lot closer to what it ought to be": black women and public-sector employment in Baltimore, 1950-1975 / Jane Berger -- Worker-citizens at the community bargaining table: the St. Louis teamster's community stewards program in the 1950s / Robert Bussel -- Chicano labor and multi-racial politics in post-WWII Texas: two case studies / Max Krochmal -- "Slaves of the state" revolt: Southern prison labor and prison made civil rights movement, 1945-1980 / Robert T. Chase -- Obreros in the peach state: the growth of Georgia's working-class Mexican immigrant communities from a transnational perspective / Michael K. Bess -- Race and labor in Memphis since the King assassination / Michael K. Honey and David H. Ciscel -- Shutdowns in the sun-belt: the decline of textile and apparel industry and deindustrialization in the South / Timothy J. Minchin -- A different kind of union: SEIU healthcare Florida from the Mid-1990s through 2009 / Bruce Nissen -- The movement for economic democracy in the South: the Virginia organizing project,1995-2004 / Michael Dennis.
Call Number
Sc E 12-666
ISBN
  • 9780813037950 (alk. paper)
  • 0813037956 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2011037500
OCLC
748330865
Title
Life and labor in the new New South / edited by Robert H. Zieger ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy J. Minchin.
Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
Series
Working in the Americas
Working in the Americas.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Zieger, Robert H.
Research Call Number
Sc E 12-666
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