Looking south
Subtitle: race, gender, and the transformation of labor from reconstruction to globalization
By: Mary E. Frederickson ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780813036038
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Employment; Globalization; Labor market; Women; African Americans; Economic aspects; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : labor transformation and networks of resistance; title: Labor, race, and Homer Plessy's freedom claim; title: Transformation and resistance : a war of images in the post-Plessy south; title: "I got so mad, I just had to get something off my chest" : the contested terrain of women's organizations in the American south; title: Beyond heroines and girl strikers : gender and organized labor in the south; title: Labor looks south : theory and practice in southern textile organizing; title: "Living in two worlds" : civil rights and southern textiles; title: Transformation and resistance in the nueva new south; title: Back to the future : mapping workers across the global south; title: Coda : southern workers on the world stage.