Fighting Against The Odds
Subtitle: A History Of Southern Labor Since World War II (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
Contributors: John David Smith (Foreword)
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: February 22, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780813027906
Subjects: Economic history; Labour economics; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; History: American; United States - State & Local - South; History; History - U.S; Southern States; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Labor movement; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); United States - 20th Century; Labor; Labor unions
Description: "This is a concise yet wide-ranging and accessible synthesis of the experience of southern workers between World War II and the present. Linking his discussion to important debates in the field of southern history today, Timothy Minchin brings the story of southern labor up to date and places the workers' own experiences in the forefront."

"Drawing on a broad knowledge of primary sources and his own extensive archive of more than two hundred interviews with southern workers, Minchin offers an overview of the past seventy years of southern labor history in combination with a lively and intimate sense of the human experience. His oral histories include men and women, both black and white, who offer their insights not just on the workplace but also on their living conditions, political activities, and race relations."--Jacket.