The Crisis of American Labor Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO

• Autor principal: Griffith, Barbara (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Temple University Press 1988
• Assuntos: History of the Americas; Industrial arbitration & negotiation; History
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Operation Dixie-the attempt by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to unionize the postwar South-was on the defensive almost as soon as it began in 1946. Although the South had a longstanding reputation for being particularly unreceptive to organized labor, the CIO decided that a Southern...