What do we need a union for? : the TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Minchin, Timothy J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Series:Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
Subjects:
Textile Workers Union of America > History.
Textile Workers Union of America.
Textile Workers Union of America > Histoire.
Textile Workers Union of America
Textile Workers Union of America > 1945-1970.
1900-1999
Textile workers > Labor unions > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Textile workers > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Travailleurs du textile > Syndicats > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travailleurs du textile > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Textile workers
Textile workers > Labor unions
Industrie textile > Personnel > États-Unis.
Textile, Travailleurs du > Syndicats > Etats-Unis (sud) > 1945-1970.
Southern States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Workers, mills, and unions before 1945
  • Cracking the textile industry: Operation Dixie, 1946-1953
  • "What do we need a union for? we've never had it so good": the problem of rising wages in Operation Dixie
  • "Winning elections isn't enough": postwar strikes
  • Moving Southern wages: the 1951 general strike
  • Losing on the relief line: the 1951 strike in Danville, Virginia
  • The death of the union: the fallout from the 1951 general strike
  • Breaking the chains of slavery: unionization and social change in Rockingham, North Carolina.

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