Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813151366)

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- group tactics, and they creatively engaged in legislative, administrative, and judicial lobbying as well as protest actions-with remarkable success. Robert E. Botsch recounts the history of the Brown L

Author: Robert E. Botsch
ISBN-10: 0813151368
ISBN-13: 9780813151366
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d