What Do We Need a Union For?: The Twua in the South, 1945-1955

by Timothy J. Minchin

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846252
• ISBN13: 9780807846254
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"