Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association - Paperback
Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association - Paperback
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by Robert E. Botsch (Author)
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 Biography
Robert E. Botsch is professor of political science at the University of South Carolina Aiken.
