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Knocking on labor's door : union organizing in the 1970s and the roots of a new economic divide /

Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and Southerners, Lane Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools - like unions and labour law - with legislative gains from the civil and women's rights movements t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Windham, Lane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The dilemma of the narrow door
  • Millions go knocking
  • Employers close the door
  • Signing up in the shipyard
  • Out of the Southern frying pan, into the global fire
  • Resistance in retail: organizing Woodward & Lothrop
  • 9 to 5: framing a new doorway.