[PDF.34ha] Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

[PDF.hj84] Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

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 | #1655248 in eBooks |  2003-11-20 |  2003-11-20 | File type: PDF

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderful work of civil rights and labor history|By Nathan D. Backlund|This book uses oral history, company, and union archives to tell a riveting story about an attempt by poor (mostly black) workers to build a union against heavy odds. This book tells us so much about twentieth century American history, and it does it with great skill. All the great themes of labor's downfa| |A vitally important contribution to the fields of labor and African American history.--New Labor Forum||

Piece[s] together a story that is at once compelling and powerful.--North Carolina Historical ||

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Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners, and shored up white supremacy.

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