- 377 pages
- English
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Life and Labor in the New New South
About this book
This collection of essays explores the dynamic new face of Southern labor since 1950. Life and Labor in the New New South weaves together the best work of established scholars with emerging cutting-edge research on ethnicity, gender, prison labor, de-industrialization, rapidly changing demographic and employment patterns, and popular response to globalization.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Southern Workers in a Changing Economy
- 1. āHow Can Greenville Get New Industry to Come Here If We Get the Label of a C.I.O. Town?ā: Capital Migration and the Limits of Unionism in the Postwar South
- 2. John McClellan, the Teamsters, and Biracial Labor Politics in Arkansas, 1947ā1959
- 3. āA Lot Closer to What It Ought to Beā: Black Women and Public-Sector Employment in Baltimore, 1950ā1975
- 4. Worker-Citizens at the Community Bargaining Table: The St. Louis Teamstersā Community Stewards Program in the 1950s
- 5. Chicano Labor and Multiracial Politics in PostāWorld War II Texas: Two Case Studies
- 6. āSlaves of the Stateā Revolt: Southern Prison Labor and a Prison-Made Civil Rights Movement, 1945ā1980
- 7. Obreros in the Peach State: The Growth of Georgiaās Working-Class Mexican Immigrant Communities from a Transnational Perspective
- 8. Race and Labor in Memphis since the King Assassination
- 9. Shutdowns in the Sun Belt: The Decline of the Textile and Apparel Industry and Deindustrialization in the South
- 10. A Different Kind of Union: SEIU Healthcare Florida from the Mid-1990s through 2009
- 11. The Movement for Economic Democracy in the South: The Virginia Organizing Project, 1995ā2004
- List of Contributors
- Index