Civil rights unionism [[electronic resource] ] : tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth-century South / / Robert Rodgers Korstad

• Autore: Korstad Robert Rodgers
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (570 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.88/17973/0975667
• Soggetto topico: Tobacco workers - Labor unions - Southern States - History - 20th century; Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-522) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Go ; 14. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Civil rights unionism
• ISBN: 0-8078-6252-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455501703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II