The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Worker Owned: Some Southern Beginnings By Woody Connette Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 11-15 In September 1979, a small group of Windsor, North Carolina residents transformed a vacant automobile showroom into a garment cut and sew operation. They chose
Myra Page: Daughter of the South, Worker for Change By Mary Frederickson Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 10-12, 14-15 On a summer evening this past August, Myra Page sat surrounded by books, papers and manuscripts in her home of
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From Southern Cotton Mills and Labor, 1929, by Myra Page By Myra Page Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, p. 13 The next afternoon I went to see my friend, Marg. Marg was always a tonic, especially after such an experience
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Union Power, Soul Power: The Story of 1199B and Labor’s Search for A Southern Strategy By Leon Fink Vol. 5, No. 2, 1983, pp. 9-20 Hospitals are one of the last centers of employment in the United States to be
Time and Time Again: The Women, the Union and the Vanity Factory By Paula Mclendon Vol. 6, No. 5, 1984, pp. 8-17 Sarah Boykin: Mr. Hundley was the plant manager when we first started organizing. They told us that he
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The Union Comes to Dooly County By Dave Ransom Vol. 6, No. 5, 1984, pp. 17-18 “We made history!” rejoiced Bettie Lloyd, after she and the forty-seven other workers at Rosewood Nursing Home in Byromville, Georgia–predominantly black, mostly women–voted this
Labor Gives to Make Saturn Work By Carter Garber and Verna Fausey Vol. 8, No. 4, 1986, p. 19 The Saturn Agreement has set a new pattern for UAW bargaining in the automobile industry and is affecting many negotiations carried
Building the Union in an Anti-Union Age By Stewart Acuff and Robert Sarason Vol. 9, No. 1, 1987, pp. 10-11 How does a labor union organize and represent a group of employees who neither have a collective bargaining contract nor
Scenes from the Office: I. “The Pitfalls Facing Management” By Staff Vol. 10, No. 1, 1988, p. 9 Editor’s note: The following memo was circulated by the corporate legal department of a large Atlanta business through all levels of management
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Scenes from the Office: II. The Supervisor in the Computer Interview by Rebecca Sharpless Vol. 10, No. 1, 1988, pp. 10-11 Susan Lowe, age twenty-seven, works with 200 co-workers in the claims department of a large insurance firm in Atlanta.
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