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The Color of Work Timothy J. Minchin

The Color of Work By Timothy J. Minchin

The Color of Work by Timothy J. Minchin


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Using previously-untapped legal records and oral history interviews, this work provides an in-depth account of the struggle to integrate the southern paper mills in the United States over the period 1945-80. Jobs were strictly segregated till the 1960s with black workers in menial positions.

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The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980 by Timothy J. Minchin

African Americans' fight to integrate southern paper mills Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin provides the first in-depth account of the struggle to integrate southern paper mills. Minchin describes how jobs in the southern paper industry were strictly segregated prior to the 1960s, with black workers confined to low-paying, menial positions. All work literally had a color: every job was racially designated and workers were represented by segregated local unions. Though black workers tried to protest workplace inequities through their unions, their efforts were largely ineffective until passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act opened the way for scores of antidiscrimination lawsuits. Even then, however, resistance from executives and white workers ensured that the fight to integrate the paper industry was a long and difficult one.

About Timothy J. Minchin

Timothy J. Minchin teaches American history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is author of What Do We Need a Union For?: The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 and the award-winning Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980.

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GOR013404104
9780807849330
0807849332
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980 by Timothy J. Minchin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The University of North Carolina Press
2001-07-30
296
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