Organizing the breathless : cotton dust, southern politics & the Brown Lung Association /

In the 1970s, textile workers joined forces with a small band of grassroots activists and organizers and challenged the most powerful industrial interest in the heart of Dixie-the cotton textile manufacturers. They located disabled workers and organized them, employing the full range of interest- gr...

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Main Author:	Botsch, Robert Emil, 1947- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1993]
Subjects:	Brown Lung Association > History. Brown Lung Association Cotton manufacture > Health aspects > Southern States. Byssinosis > Social aspects > Southern States. Cotton dust > Health aspects > Southern States. Textile workers > Health and hygiene > Southern States. Cotton. Byssinosis > prevention & control Gossypium Cotton Fiber Dust > immunology Gossypium > adverse effects Textile Industry > standards cotton (fiber) Southeastern United States Electronic books.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9780813162188 0813162181
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central