Southern Organizing in the Post-Civil Rights Era: The Case of S. Lichtenberg

Robert Bussel

ILR Review, 1999, vol. 52, issue 4, 528-538

Abstract: This case study examines the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union's successful 3-1/2-year effort (1988–91) to organize workers at S. Lichtenberg, a Georgia-based curtain manufacturer. The author uses archival research and extensive interviews with rank-and-file activists to determine why the union was able to triumph after earlier (1966 and 1971) failed attempts to organize. He finds that political changes in the post-civil rights South, the solidarity provided by race, gender, and religious identification, and the union's creative tactics coalesced in a winning strategy. The findings have significant implications not only for Southern organizing but also for the labor movement's renewed emphasis on attracting new members.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1177/001979399905200402

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