What do we need a union for? :the TWUA in the South, 1945-1955
- 作者: Minchin, Timothy J.
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©1997.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (285 pages).
- 叢書名: The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
- 標題: Textile workers. , Travailleurs du textile , Personnel , Travailleurs du textile États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. , 1900-1999 , Textile workers Labor unions -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. , Textile Workers Union of America 1945-1970. , Industrie textile , Syndicats , Textile workers Southern States -- History -- 20th century. , History. , Southern States. , Textile workers , Labor. , SyndicatsHistoire , Textile workers Labor unions. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Labor. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS , Labor unionsHistory , Labor unions. , Histoire. , Textile, Travailleurs du Syndicats -- Etats-Unis (sud) -- 1945-1970. , Textile Workers Union of America , POLITICAL SCIENCE Labor & Industrial Relations. , POLITICAL SCIENCE , Electronic books. , Textile Workers Union of America. , Industrie textile Personnel -- États-Unis. , History , Textile Workers Union of America Histoire. , Travailleurs du textile Syndicats -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. , Histoire , Textile, Travailleurs du , Textile Workers Union of America History. , Labor & Industrial Relations.
- ISBN: 0807863424 , 9780807863428
- ISBN: 0807823171 , 0807846252 , 9780807823170 , 9780807846254
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index. 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.
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The rise in standards of living throughout the U. S. in the wake of World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. Mill workers' wages rose, their purchasing power grew, and their economic expectations increased--with little help from the unions. Timothy Minchin argues that the reasons behind the failure of textile unions in the postwar South lie not in stereotypical assumptions of mill workers' passivity or anti-union hostility but in these large-scale social changes. Minchin addresses the challenges faced by the TWUA--competition from nonunion mills that matched or exceeded union wages, charges of racism and radicalism within the union, and conflict between its northern and southern branches--and focuses especially on the devastating general strike of 1951. Drawing extensively on oral histories and archival records, he presents a close look at southern textile communities within the context of the larger history of southern labor, linking events in the textile industry to the broader social and economic impact of World War II on American society.
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