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Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association
ISBN: 9780813151366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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... In the 1970s, textile workers joined forces with a small band of grassroots activists and organizers and challenged the most powerful industrial in... |
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We Shall Not Overcome: Populism and Southern Blue-Collar Workers
ISBN: 9780807896259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Botsch samples current attitudes of southern blue-collar workers, both black and white, toward work and race and questions whether these workers can overcome racial barriers to form a populist-style coalition aimed at improving their shared economic condition. A strong sense of individualism, a general distrust of the government, and a failure to see links between daily personal problems and political choices are major deterrants to political action.
Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology... Botsch samples current attitudes of southern blue-collar workers, both black and white, toward work and race and questions whether these workers can o...
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277,17 zł |