Labor in the modern South /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eskew, Glenn T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2001]
Series:Economy and society in the modern South.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The pursuits of post-exceptionalism : race, gender, class, and politics in the new southern labor history / Michelle Brattain
  • "Give her some of that" : cotton mill girls, family wages, and the question of female independence in the new South / Douglas Flamming
  • "The women are asking for BREAD, why give them STONE?" Women, work, and protests in Atlanta and Norfolk during World War I / Tera W. Hunter
  • Fearing Eleanor : racial anxieties and wartime rumors in the American South, 1940-1945 / Bryant Simon
  • Bell Aircraft comes south : the struggle by Atlanta blacks for jobs during World War II / Merl E. Reed
  • Exclusion, fair employment, or interracial unionism : race relations in Florida's shipyards during World War II / Alex Lichtenstein
  • A venture into unplowed fields : Daniel Powell and CIO political action in the postwar South / Robert H. Zieger
  • Affirmative action and the conservative agenda : President Richard M. Nixon's Philadelphia Plan of 1969 / Judith Stein
  • The serendipitous historian : Gary M Fink and the shaping of southern labor history / Clifford Kuhn.