Table of Contents: What do we need a union for? :

Main Author:	Minchin, Timothy J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Series:	The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
Subjects:	Textile workers > Labor unions > 20th century. > Southern States > History Textile workers > History > 20th century. > Southern States Textile, Travailleurs du > Syndicats > 20e siècle. > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire Textile, Travailleurs du > Histoire > 20e siècle. > États-Unis (Sud) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations. Textile workers. Textile workers > Labor unions. Industrie textile > Personnel > États-Unis. Textile, Travailleurs du > Syndicats > 1945-1970. > Etats-Unis (sud) Southern States.
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Table of Contents:

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.