Covering for the bosses : labor and the Southern press / Joseph B. Atkins ; foreword by Stanley Aronowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkins, Joseph B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--Press coverage--Southern States--History--20th century.

Labor movement.

Strikes and lockouts--Press coverage--Southern States--History--20th century.

Strikes and lockouts.

Press coverage.

History.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Labor, the Southern Press, and the Civil War That Never Ended 3

Chapter 2 Labor in the Old New South 19

Chapter 3 The CIO and Operation Dixie A "Lamp of Democracy" in the South 37

Chapter 4 Labor, Civil Rights, and Memphis 64

Chapter 5 Labor, Race, and the Mississippi Press 86

Chapter 6 The Sunbelt South and Its Shadows 98

Chapter 7 Southern Exposure "A New Style of Southern Journalism" 127

Chapter 8 Pillowtex Says Goodnight 142

Chapter 9 Wal-Mart Conquers the World 160

Chapter 10 Charleston "The First Major Labor Battle of the Twenty-first Century" 176

Chapter 11 Detroit South 193

Chapter 12 Immigrants from a Deeper South 210

Postscript My Hometown From Tobacco and Textiles to an Iglesia on Main Street 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.

ISBN:

9781934110805

1934110809

OCLC:

180690076