Labor in the modern South / edited by Glenn T. Eskew.

Other author Eskew, Glenn T.
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©2001.
Descriptionviii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEconomy and society in the modern South
Economy and society in the modern South. ^A418738
Contents The pursuits of post-exceptionalism : race, gender, class, and politics in the new southern labor history / Michelle Brattain -- "Give her some of that" : cotton mill girls, family wages, and the question of female independence in the new South / Douglas Flamming -- "The women are asking for BREAD, why give them STONE?" Women, work, and protests in Atlanta and Norfolk during World War I / Tera W. Hunter -- Fearing Eleanor : racial anxieties and wartime rumors in the American South, 1940-1945 / Bryant Simon -- Bell Aircraft comes south : the struggle by Atlanta blacks for jobs during World War II / Merl E. Reed -- Exclusion, fair employment, or interracial unionism : race relations in Florida's shipyards during World War II / Alex Lichtenstein -- A venture into unplowed fields : Daniel Powell and CIO political action in the postwar South / Robert H. Zieger -- Affirmative action and the conservative agenda : President Richard M. Nixon's Philadelphia Plan of 1969 / Judith Stein -- The serendipitous historian : Gary M Fink and the shaping of southern labor history / Clifford Kuhn.
General noteA collection of 10 papers, 6 presented at a March 7, 1998, Festscrift in honor of Gary M. Fink on his retirement from the Georgia State University Dept. of History.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00050798
ISBN0820322601 (alk. paper)

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