Organizing the breathless : cotton dust, southern politics & 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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1993]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.