{"product_id":"southern-labor-and-black-civil-rights-9780252063053","title":"Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Packs the emotive power of a zillion 'race' memoirs precisely because it is the story of what happened when black and white workers collectively challenged the powers-that-be in the meanest city in the South.\"--Robin D. G. Kelley, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A vitally important contribution to the scholarly debate about the relationship between class and race in American history.\"--Bruce Nelson, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Among the best and most ambitious recent works on labor in the South. . . . Few readers of this book are likely to remain unmoved by Honey's account of the exceptional sacrifice, courage, and vision displayed by labor activists in Memphis.\"--\u003ci\u003eGeorgia Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sheds considerable light on numerous themes of importance to historians of a multiplicity of specialties, from labor and African American history, to historians of the South and twentieth-century America.\"--\u003ci\u003eLabor History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-researched and carefully written book. . . . Anyone interested in the Southern labor movement must consult this work.\"--\u003ci\u003eMississippi Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major contribution to the history of labor, race relations, and the twentieth-century South. . . . Honey vividly brings the labor movement to life and places Memphis in the wider context of southern and national history.\"--Pete Daniel, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major new study of how the Solid South restrained social reform and labor's strength in New Deal America.\"--David Montgomery, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: Labor and Civil Rights 1\u003cbr\u003e I: Southern Apartheid and the Labor Movement\u003cbr\u003e ONE: Segregation and Southern Labor 13\u003cbr\u003e TWO: No Bill of Rights in Memphis 44\u003cbr\u003e II: Labor's Struggle for the Right to Organize\u003cbr\u003e THREE: The Rise and Repression of Industrial Unionism 67\u003cbr\u003e FOUR: Black and White Unite 93\u003cbr\u003e FIVE: Race, Radicalism, and the CIO 117\u003cbr\u003e SIX: Black Scares and Red Scares 145\u003cbr\u003e III: Industrial Unionism and the Black Freedom Movement\u003cbr\u003e SEVEN: War in the Factories 177\u003cbr\u003e EIGHT: The CIO at the Crossroads 214\u003cbr\u003e NINE: The Cold War against Labor and Civil Rights 245\u003cbr\u003e CONCLUSION: Legacies 279\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations 293\u003cbr\u003e Notes 295\u003cbr\u003e Primary Sources Consulted 349\u003cbr\u003e Index 353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400463655255,"sku":"9780252063053","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252063053.jpg?v=1730470744","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/southern-labor-and-black-civil-rights-9780252063053","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}