Civil rights unionism : tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth-century South /

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Drawing on interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Korstad explores their confrontations against 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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Korstad, Robert Rodgers (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America > History > 20th century.
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America.
1900-1999
Tobacco workers > Labor unions > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Travailleurs du tabac > Syndicats > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Civil rights movements.
Tobacco workers > Labor unions.
Southern States.
History.
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