Civil rights unionism : tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth-century South / Robert Rodgers Korstad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Korstad, Robert Rodgers.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tobacco workers--Labor unions--Southern States--History--20th century.

Tobacco workers.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America--History--20th century.

Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (570 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Korstad explores their confrontations against racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners and shored up white supremacy.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Those Who Were Not Afraid; 2. Industrial and Political Revolutions; 3. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Country Small Town Grown Big Town Rich—and Poor; 4. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company: A Moneymaking Place; 5. Social Learning; 6. Talking Union; 7. A Dream Come True; 8. Like Being Reconstructed; 9. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities; 10. There Was Nothing in the City That Didn't Concern the Tobacco Union; 11. It Wasn't Just Wages We Wanted, but Freedom; 12. Fighting the Fire; 13. Jim Crow Must Go

14. If You Beat the White Man at One Trick, He Will Try Another15. Trust the Bridge That Carried Us Over; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-522) and index.

ISBN:

9798890875518

9780807862520

0807862525

OCLC:

476236965