Title: Covering for the bosses
Description: "Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press probes the difficult relationship between the press and organized labor in the South from the past to the present day. Written by a veteran journalist and firsthand observer of the labor movement and its treatment in the region's newspapers and other media, the text focuses on the modern South that has evolved since World War II." "Using individual events to reveal the broad picture, Covering for the Bosses is a personal journey by a textile worker's son who grew up in North Carolina, worked on tobacco farms and in textile plants as a young man, and went on to cover as a reporter many of the developments described in this book."--book jacket.
Subjects: History, Labor movement, Press coverage, Strikes and lockouts, Labor movement, united states, Southern states, social conditions
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 20th century