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Author:

Minchin, Timothy J.

Title:

Fighting against the odds : a history of southern labor since World War II / Timothy J. Minchin ; foreword by John David Smith.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

2006, c2005

Description:

xiv, 232 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Labor--Southern States--History
Labor unions--Southern States--History.
Labor movement--Southern States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-214) and index.

Contents:

A double-edged sword : World War II and southern workers 8 -- The number one task : operation Dixie and the failure of postwar organizing -- Split wide open : black and white workers in the 1950s -- Civil rights struggles -- Southern workers in the sunbelt years -- Toward a new century.

Series:

New perspectives on the history of the South

ISBN:

9780813029795 (pbk.)
0813029791 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64591071

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)