Title: Life and labor in the new New South /
Authors: Zieger, Robert H.
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Labor Southern States History.; Labor movement Southern States History.; Southern States Social conditions.; Southern States Economic conditions.
Contents: "How can Greenville get new industry to come here if we get the label of a C.I.O. town?": capital migration and the limits of unionism in the postwar south / Tami J. Friedman -- John McClellan, the teamsters, and biracial labor politics in Arkansas, 1947-1959 / Michael Pierce -- "A lot closer to what it ought to be": black women and public-sector employment in Baltimore, 1950-1975 / Jane Berger -- Worker-citizens at the community bargaining table: the St. Louis teamster's community stewards program in the 1950s / Robert Bussel -- Chicano labor and multi-racial politics in post-WWII Texas: two case studies / Max Krochmal -- "Slaves of the state" revolt: Southern prison labor and prison made civil rights movement, 1945-1980 / Robert T. Chase -- Obreros in the peach state: the growth of Georgia's working-class Mexican immigrant communities from a transnational perspective / Michael K. Bess -- Race and labor in Memphis since the King assassination / Michael K. Honey and David H. Ciscel -- Shutdowns in the sun-belt: the decline of textile and apparel industry and deindustrialization in the South / Timothy J. Minchin -- A different kind of union: SEIU healthcare Florida from the Mid-1990s through 2009 / Bruce Nissen -- The movement for economic democracy in the South: the Virginia organizing project,1995-2004 / Michael Dennis.