Labor in the modern South / edited by Glenn T. Eskew.
| Other author | Eskew, Glenn T. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2001. |
| Description | viii, 232 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Economy 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 note | A 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00050798 |
| ISBN | 0820322601 (alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HD8083.S9 L33 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |