The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
The New Factories in the Fields: Georgia Poultry Workers By Greg Guthey Vol. 19, No. 3-4, 1997 pp. 23-25 Author’s note: While Atlanta promotes itself, somewhat legitimately, as an “international city” due in part to the non-U. S. origins of
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BOOKS: What’s A Union For?: New Perspectives on Textile Unionism in the Post-World War II South By Mary Frederickson Vol. 19, No. 3-4, 1997 pp. 36-39 Daniel J. Clark, Like Night and Day: Unionization in a Southern Mill Town, Chapel
Here Comes the Farm Labor Organizing Committee Vol. 20, No. 4, 1998 pp. 24-26 Baldemar Velasquez founded and currently serves as president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. In August 1998, Velasquez was interviewed at the Southern Regional Council. The
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Voices and Choices: Workplace Justice and the Poultry Industry Edited bySusan Stevenot Sullivan Vol. 23, No. 1, 2001 pp. 3-7 In an unprecedented move this past November, the Roman Catholic bishops of the Southern United States released a pastoral statement
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Looking for a Living Wage Reviewed by Amy Schrager Lang Vol. 23, No. 3-4, 2001 pp. 31-32, 34 Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. In the summer of 1999, just