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Review essays

“Operation Dixie”: Two points of view

Pages 373-385 | Published online: 28 Feb 2007

References

  • Griffith , Barbara S. 1988 . The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO , 239 – 239 . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . $29.95.
  • Honey Michael Labor and Civil Rights in the South: The Industrial Labor Movement and Black Workers in Memphis, 1929–1945 Northern Illinois Univ. 1987 unpublished PhD diss. Robert Rogers Korstad, “Daybreak of Freedom: Tobacco Workers and the CIO, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1943–1950” (unpublished PhD diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987.
  • Rogin , Lawrence . July 1986 . personal interview July , Washington, DC 24
  • Horton , Myles . June 1981 . personal interview June , New Market, TN 2
  • As an illustration of these programs, the reviewer can cite those initiated in the latter half of the fifties by the Textile Workers Union of America: (a) the introduction of formal reporting forms for organizers and supervisors and training sessions for their use; (b) a professional opinion pollster's survey of the views of textile workers in one chain of unionized Southern textile mills; (c) a survey of the studies of textile worker outpatients of a Durham NC mental health clinic, the results of which were presented by Solomon Barkin in an article entitled The Personality Profile of Southern Textile Workers Labor Law Journal June 1960 11 457 472 (d) the financing of the publication of a manuscript of a PhD dissertation by John Kenneth Moreland entitled Millways of Kent (Chapel Hill, 1958); (e) a field study of textile worker opinions in several mill villages summarized by Professor Donald F. Roy, “Changes and Resistance to Change in Southern Labor Movement,” in John C. McKinney and Edward T. Thompson, eds., The South in Continuity and Change (Durham, NC, 1965), 225–47.
  • Barkin , Solomon . 1949 . The Regional Significance of the Integration Movement in the Southern Textile Industry . The Southern Economic Journal , 15 : 395 – 411 .
  • Bernstein , Irving . 1979 . Turbulent Years, A History of the American Worker, 1933–41 449 – 501 . Boston 533–4, 559, 592–3, 598, 620, 678.
  • Barkin , Solomon . 1940 . Industrial Union Wage Policies . Plan Age , 6 Jan. : 1 – 14 . and “Wage Policies of Industrial Unions,” Harvard Business Review, 19 (1941), 342–51.
  • Lahne , Herbert J. 1944 . The Cotton Mill Worker 21 – 23 . New York
  • Barkin , Solomon . 1962 . Differentiated National Labor Policies to Meet Present Problems . New Law Journal , 16 : 744 – 757 . “New Labor Relations Policies and Remedies Suggested by Different Industrial Settings,” Industrial Relations Research Association Proceedings of The Fifteenth Annual Meeting, December 1962 in Pittsburgh PA, 220–36; “An Agenda for the Revisions of American Industrial Relations System,” Labor Law Journal, Nov. 1985, 857–60.
  • For an overall survey and discussion of financing of Operation Dixie, see Marshall F. Ray Labor in the South Cambridge, MA 1967 246 269

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