Съдържание:
  • Workers, mills, and unions before 1945
  • Cracking the textile industry: Operation Dixie, 1946-1953
  • "What do we need a union for? we've never had it so good": the problem of rising wages in Operation Dixie
  • "Winning elections isn't enough": postwar strikes
  • Moving Southern wages: the 1951 general strike
  • Losing on the relief line: the 1951 strike in Danville, Virginia
  • The death of the union: the fallout from the 1951 general strike
  • Breaking the chains of slavery: unionization and social change in Rockingham, North Carolina.