Covering for the bosses labor and the Southern press /

• Main Author: Atkins, Joseph B.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.
• Subjects: Labor movement > Press coverage > History > 20th century. > Southern States; Strikes and lockouts > Press coverage > History > 20th century. > Southern States; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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."