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Columns::September 4, 2001

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Alumnus gives voice to labor workers

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University of Georgia Press

Labor in the Modern South gives a voice to workers underrepresented in previous scholarship on labor in the 20th-century South. Edited by UGA alumnus Glenn T. Eskew--and covering locales as diverse as Atlanta, Richmond, Tampa and Houston--the nine original essays encompass issues related to the specialized jobs of building ships and airplanes in the defense industries of World War II and to the unskilled work of oyster shuckers and cigar tobacco “stemmers.”
Heeding issues of race, gender and class in labor history, the book includes an analysis of how young female workers spent their wages and an account of how purported underground unions of domestic workers fed white anxieties about the loosening hold of Jim Crow.
Filled with new insights into Southerners’ concerns about workplace safety, access to training, job mobility and worker solidarity, these essays offer a sophisticated and inclusive interpretation of 20th-century labor.

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