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

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Korstad, Robert Rodgers [author.]

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0807862525
9780807862520
9780807827819
0807827819
9780807854549
0807854549

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Civil rights unionism.DDC classification:

331.88/17973/0975667 22

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HD6515.T6 K67 2003eb

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Contents:

Those Who Were Not Afraid -- Industrial and Political Revolutions -- Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Country Small Town Grown Big Town Rich, and Poor -- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company: A Moneymaking Place -- Social Learning -- Talking Union -- A Dream Come True -- Like Being Reconstructed -- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities -- There Was Nothing in the City That Didn't Concern the Tobacco Union -- It Wasn't Just Wages We Wanted, but Freedom -- Fighting the Fire -- Jim Crow Must Go -- If You Beat the White Man at One Trick, He Will Try Another -- Trust the Bridge That Carried Us Over.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-522) and index.

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.