Covering for the bosses labor and the Southern press /

Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press probes the difficult relationship between the press and organized labor in the South from the past to the present day. Written by a veteran journalist and first-hand observer of the labor movement and its treatment in the region's newspapers...

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Main Author: Atkins, Joseph B.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.
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505 0 # |a Foreword; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Labor, the Southern Press, and the Civil War That Never Ended; CHAPTER 2 Labor in the Old New South; CHAPTER 3 The CIO and Operation Dixie: A "Lamp of Democracy" in the South; CHAPTER 4 Labor, Civil Rights, and Memphis; CHAPTER 5 Labor, Race, and the Mississippi Press; CHAPTER 6 The Sunbelt South and Its Shadows; CHAPTER 7 Southern Exposure: "A New Style of Southern Journalism"; CHAPTER 8 Pillowtex Says Goodnight; CHAPTER 9 Wal-Mart Conquers the World; CHAPTER 10 Charleston: "The First Major Labor Battle of the Twenty-first Century." 
520 # # |a Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press probes the difficult relationship between the press and organized labor in the South from the past to the present day. Written by a veteran journalist and first-hand observer of the labor movement and its treatment in the region's newspapers and other media, the text focuses on the modern South that has evolved since World War II. In gathering materials for this book, Joseph B. Atkins crisscrossed the region, interviewing workers, managers, labor organizers, immigrants, activists, and journalists, and canvassing labor archives. 
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