Organizing the breathless : cotton dust, southern politics & the Brown Lung Association /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Botsch, Robert Emil, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1993]
Subjects:
Brown Lung Association > History.
Brown Lung Association
Cotton manufacture > Health aspects > Southern States.
Byssinosis > Social aspects > Southern States.
Cotton dust > Health aspects > Southern States.
Textile workers > Health and hygiene > Southern States.
Cotton.
Byssinosis > prevention & control
Gossypium
Cotton Fiber
Dust > immunology
Gossypium > adverse effects
Textile Industry > standards
Byssinose > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud)
Coton.
cotton (fiber)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Cotton
Byssinosis > Social aspects
Cotton dust > Health aspects
Cotton manufacture > Health aspects
Textile workers > Health and hygiene
Southeastern United States
Southern States
History
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