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Organizing the Breathless : Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association /
In the 1970s, textile workers joined forces with a small band of grassroots activists and organizers and challenged the most powerful industrial interest in the heart of Dixie-the cotton textile manufacturers. They located disabled workers and organized them, employing the full range of interest- gr...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1993]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Organizing the Breathless : |b Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association / |c Robert E. Botsch. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: a Southern tragedy -- Cultural and political setting -- Compensating victims and protecting workers -- Workplace risk and scientific research -- Birth of the brown lung association -- Organizational structure and life -- Noise and institutional disruption -- Textile industry response -- Suffocation. | |
| 520 | |a In the 1970s, textile workers joined forces with a small band of grassroots activists and organizers and challenged the most powerful industrial interest in the heart of Dixie-the cotton textile manufacturers. They located disabled workers and organized them, employing the full range of interest- group tactics, and they creatively engaged in legislative, administrative, and judicial lobbying as well as protest actions-with remarkable success.Robert E. Botsch recounts the history of the Brown Lung Association and details the interaction of the major participants in the rise-and ultimately the f. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Textile workers |x Health and hygiene. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01148963 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Cotton manufacture |x Health aspects. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00881020 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Cotton dust |x Health aspects. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00880947 | |
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