| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 556 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-522) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America -- History -- 20th century.
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Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America. -- History -- 20th century. |
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Tobacco workers -- Labor unions -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Tobacco workers -- Labor unions. |
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Southern States. |
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Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Korstad, Robert Rodgers. Civil rights unionism. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807827819 0807854549 (DLC) 2002152319 (OCoLC)50906224 |
| ISBN |
0807862525 (electronic book) |
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9780807862520 (electronic book) |
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9780807827819 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807827819 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807854549 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0807854549 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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