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Author:

Woodrum, Robert H.

Title:

"Everybody was black down there" : race and industrial change in the Alabama coalfields / by Robert H. Woodrum.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xiv, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United Mine Workers of America.
African American coal miners--Alabama--History.
African Americans--Alabama--Social conditions.
Coal miners--History--Alabama--History--20th century.
African American labor union members--Alabama--History--20th century.
Alabama--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index.

Contents:

Race, class, gender, and community before 1941 -- The UMWA and the color line in Alabama, 1933-1942 -- The World War II strikes : 1941-1945 -- Race, economic decline, and the fight for the welfare and retirement fund : 1946-1950 -- Industrial transformation and the struggle over health care : 1950-1961 -- Globalization, race, and gender : 1961-1980 -- The era of global competition : 1980-2003.

Series:

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South

ISBN:

9780820328799 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820328790 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820327396 (cloth : alk. paper)
0820327395 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)68799560

LCCN:

2006014974

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)