Robert Korstad is associate professor of public policy studies and history at Duke University. He is a coauthor of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World and a coeditor of Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life In the Segregated South.
A vitally important contribution to the fields of labor and African
American history."--New Labor Forum
At the center of Korstad's expansive but tightly knit narrative is
the argument that unions represented the best hope for carrying the
New Deal's vision of economic democracy and social justice into the
postwar period. The liberal, reformist atmosphere of the New Deal
years provided the climate not only for the working-class activism
but also for African American civil rights. . . . Provides readers
[with] a solid sense of the political and economic exigencies that
made African American unionization possible in the Solid South. . .
. Korstad is to be applauded for illuminating the struggle of
working-class African Americans to build a union movement that
expressed their ambitions for so much more than a wage
increase."--Reviews in American History
Korstad's book sheds light on the decline of New Deal liberalism,
the origins of the Civil Rights Movement, the development of
interracial labor unions, and the coalescence of the Cold War
consensus. . . . Leaves us with a richer understanding of how
southern liberals fought back in the face of oppression and
poverty. "--Southern Historian
Piece[s] together a story that is at once compelling and
powerful."--North Carolina Historical Review
The breadth of Korstad's work is impressive and so is his ability
to incorporate the broader historical context into the narrative of
the Local [22]. . . . One of the many significant aspects of
Korstad's book is that he gives voice to the neglected history of
African American women in the trade union movement."--Left
History
This book is exemplary. . . . Korstad's research and writing
exhibits all the standards of rigorous scholarship."--Political
Affairs
To take the measure of Robert Korstad's arguments in Civil Rights
Unionism is to cast the civil rights movement in this bright new
light."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Well-researched and well-written . . . A major contribution to the
current scholarship on labor history."--American Communist
History
[This] well-researched analysis paints a rich portrait of the
struggles of black working-class Americans for respect on and off
the job.--Winston-Salem Journal
An exceptionally rich work of scholarship.--Journal of American
History
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