Life and labor in the new New South

Life and labor in the new New South / edited by Robert H. Zieger ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy J. Minchin.

This collection of essays explores the dynamic new face of Southern labour since 1950, examining such topics as southern deindustrialisation, union activism in the healthcare industry, labour-community coalitions, the politics of southern anti-unionism, and immigrant labour in southern agriculture.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zieger, Robert H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
Series:Working in the Americas.
Subjects:
Labor movement > Southern States > History.
Labor > Southern States > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Economic history
Labor
Labor movement
Social conditions
Southern States > Economic conditions.
Southern States > Social conditions.
Southern States
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Southern Workers in a Changing Economy; 1. "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; 2. John McClellan, the Teamsters, and Biracial Labor Politics in Arkansas, 1947-1959; 3. "A Lot Closer to What It Ought to Be": Black Women and Public-Sector Employment in Baltimore, 1950-1975; 4. Worker-Citizens at the Community Bargaining Table: The St. Louis Teamsters' Community Stewards Program in the 1950s.
  • 5. Chicano Labor and Multiracial Politics in Post-World War II Texas: Two Case Studies6. "Slaves of the State" Revolt: Southern Prison Labor and a Prison-Made Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1980; 7. Obreros in the Peach State: The Growth of Georgia's Working-Class Mexican Immigrant Communities from a Transnational Perspective; 8. Race and Labor in Memphis since the King Assassination; 9. Shutdowns in the Sun Belt: The Decline of the Textile and Apparel Industry and Deindustrialization in the South; 10. A Different Kind of Union: SEIU Healthcare Florida from the Mid-1990s through 2009.
  • 11. The Movement for Economic Democracy in the South: The Virginia Organizing Project, 1995-2004List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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