02894nam 22005774a 450 991078022380332120230617030411.0979-88-908755-1-80-8078-6252-5(CKB)111087027918662(EBL)413333(OCoLC)476236965(SSID)ssj0000122744(PQKBManifestationID)11135179(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122744(PQKBWorkID)10131810(PQKB)10552134(Au-PeEL)EBL413333(CaPaEBR)ebr10202630(CaONFJC)MIL929312(MiAaPQ)EBC413333(EXLCZ)9911108702791866220021025d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCivil rights unionism[electronic resource] tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth-century South /Robert Rodgers KorstadChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20031 online resource (570 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5454-9 0-8078-2781-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-522) and index.Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Those Who Were Not Afraid; 2. Industrial and Political Revolutions; 3. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Country Small Town Grown Big Town Rich—and Poor; 4. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company: A Moneymaking Place; 5. Social Learning; 6. Talking Union; 7. A Dream Come True; 8. Like Being Reconstructed; 9. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities; 10. There Was Nothing in the City That Didn't Concern the Tobacco Union; 11. It Wasn't Just Wages We Wanted, but Freedom; 12. Fighting the Fire; 13. Jim Crow Must Go14. If You Beat the White Man at One Trick, He Will Try Another15. Trust the Bridge That Carried Us Over; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; Drawing on interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Korstad explores their confrontations against racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners and shored up white supremacy.Tobacco workersLabor unionsSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryTobacco workersLabor unionsHistoryCivil rights movementsHistory331.88/17973/0975667Korstad Robert Rodgers1520412MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780223803321Civil rights unionism3787969UNINA