Organizing the breathless : cotton dust, southern politics & the Brown Lung Association / Robert E. Botsch.

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Botsch, Robert Emil, 1947- [author.]

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813162188
0813162181

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Organizing the Breathless : Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association.DDC classification:

363.11/967721/0975 23

LOC classification:

RC965.C77 B68 1993eb

NLM classification:

WF 654

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Contents:

Introduction: a Southern tragedy -- Cultural and political setting -- Compensating victims and protecting workers -- Workplace risk and scientific research -- Birth of the brown lung association -- Organizational structure and life -- Noise and institutional disruption -- Textile industry response -- Suffocation.

Summary: In the 1970s, textile workers joined forces with a small band of grassroots activists and organizers and challenged the most powerful industrial interest in the heart of Dixie-the cotton textile manufacturers. They located disabled workers and organized them, employing the full range of interest- group tactics, and they creatively engaged in legislative, administrative, and judicial lobbying as well as protest actions-with remarkable success.Robert E. Botsch recounts the history of the Brown Lung Association and details the interaction of the major participants in the rise-and ultimately the f.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.

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In the 1970s, textile workers joined forces with a small band of grassroots activists and organizers and challenged the most powerful industrial interest in the heart of Dixie-the cotton textile manufacturers. They located disabled workers and organized them, employing the full range of interest- group tactics, and they creatively engaged in legislative, administrative, and judicial lobbying as well as protest actions-with remarkable success.Robert E. Botsch recounts the history of the Brown Lung Association and details the interaction of the major participants in the rise-and ultimately the f.

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