Organizing the breathless : cotton dust, southern politics & the Brown Lung Association / Robert E. Botsch.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813162188
- 0813162181
- Brown Lung Association -- History
- Brown Lung Association
- Brown Lung Association
- Cotton manufacture -- Health aspects -- Southern States
- Byssinosis -- Social aspects -- Southern States
- Cotton dust -- Health aspects -- Southern States
- Textile workers -- Health and hygiene -- Southern States
- Cotton
- Byssinosis -- prevention & control
- Cotton Fiber
- Dust -- immunology
- Gossypium -- adverse effects
- Textile Industry -- standards
- Southeastern United States
- Gossypium
- Byssinose -- Aspect social -- États-Unis (Sud)
- Coton
- cotton (fiber)
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Byssinosis -- Social aspects
- Cotton dust -- Health aspects
- Cotton manufacture -- Health aspects
- Textile workers -- Health and hygiene
- Southern States
- 363.11/967721/0975 23
- RC965.C77 B68 1993eb
- WF 654
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.
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.
Print version record.
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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