Southern Labor
Thursday, August 31 2006
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The textile strikes of 1934 involved hundreds of thousands of workers and spanned most of the south, aided in part by small radio stations playing protest music. Host Frank Stasio looks at the stories behind the strike, the history of southern labor, and the current efforts at unionization with: Bill Danaher, associate professor of sociology at the College of Charleston and Vincent Roscigno, professor of sociology at The Ohio State University, who co-authored the book "The Voice of Southern Labor, Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934" (Univ. of Minnesota Press/2004); Robert Korstad, associate professor of public policy studies and history at Duke University; and Dave DeWitt, senior correspondent at The State of Things. Listener Call-in.
