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Working lives : the Southern exposure history of labor in the South
- Title
- Working lives : the Southern exposure history of labor in the South / edited by Marc S. Miller ; with an introduction by Herbert Gutman.
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [1980]
- ©1980
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Miller, Marc S., 1947-
- Description
- xvii, 414 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Uniform Title
- Southern exposure.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 375-395.
- Contents
- Introduction / Herbert Gutman -- Part 1. The promised land, 1900-1929 -- Farm to mill: the first generation / Valerie Quinney -- We owed these children more / Margaret H. Martin -- The brotherhood / Jim Green -- If I could go back / Groesbeck Parham and Gwen Robinson -- Work like the devil for my pay: Mobile, Alabama, 1900-1929 / Melton McLaurin and Michael Thomason -- The recruiter / Clemen T. Imhoff -- Part 2. No more moanin', 1929-1945 -- Massacre at Gauley Bridge / Eric Frumin -- Strike at Davidson-Wilder, 1932-1933 / Brenda Bell and Fran Ansley -- Davidson-Wilder blues / Ed Davis -- The ballad of Barney Graham / Della Mae Graham -- Little David Blues / Tom Lowry -- Day by day, 1946: the Sergent family / photographs by Russell W. Lee -- The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union / Leah Wise and Sue Thrasher -- In Egypt land / John Beecher -- A place to speak our minds / Mary Frederickson -- My struggle to escape the cotton mill,1930 / southern summer school scrapbook -- I was in the Gastonia strike / Bertha Hendrix -- UAW sit-down strike: Atlanta, 1936 / Neill Herring and Sue Thrasher -- Those who were not afraid: Winston-Salem, 1943 / Bob Korstad -- Part 3. Here come a wind, 1945-1980 -- On the line at Oneita / Carolyn Ashbaugh and Dan McCurry -- A true poem: you can't just fire a man like that! / Joanie Whitebird -- Runaways / Don Stillman -- It's good to be home in Greenville / Cliff Sloan and Bob Hall -- Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike, 1969 / Steve Hoffius -- Contract at Brookside, 1974 / Tom Bethell and Bob Hall -- The rebel in me / Sean Devereux -- Puttin' down Ol' Massa: Laurel, Mississippi, 1979 / David Moberg -- Cotton: the fiber you can trust / Earl Dotter -- Cotton dust kills, and it's killing me / Mimi Conway -- OSHA: dynamite for workers / Chip Hughes and Len Stanley -- A new twist for textiles / Chip Hughes -- Labor on the move: the future / Marc S. Miller.
- ISBN
- 0394509129
- 9780394509129
- 0394739655
- 9780394739656
- LCCN
- 80007720
- OCLC
- ocm06250206
- 6250206
- SCSB-29252
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library