Southern Exposure Library:
Labor and the Economy

Priced individually.

Targeting Youth
Produced by and about young people, the issue includes the Project Censored award-winning article about child labor practicers. Also covers racist "tracking" practices, the JROTC invasion of the South, and an interview with Marian Wright Edelman. Limi ted supplies
(Issue #101-102, Fall/Winter 1995) $5.

Meltdown on Main Street
A package of articles that explains everything you wanted to know about the savings and loan scandal but were too overwhelmed to ask. Your guide to what happened, and how citizens can fight back. "Brilliant" -- Utne Reader.
(Issue #75, Spring 1989) $5.

Here Come a Wind
A 225-page compendium on the labor movement in the South: J.P. Stevens, runaway shops, workers using OSHA and EEOC. Oral histories; profiles of union members. Section on labor education, and a 30-page look at Harlan County, 1930-74.
(Issue #13-14, Spring/Summer 1976) $4.50.

Sunbelt Blues
An in-depth look at changes in the Southern workforce from the 1960s to the '90s; from working conditions in labor pools to confessions of a union buster and a look at what has happened to jobs in the region.
(Issue #81, Fall 1990) $5.

Working Women
A resource guide with a lot of personal testimony. What are your rights? How do you organize? What are other women doing that works?
(Issue #36, Winter 1981) $4.

Proud Threads
Two decades after the landmark labor victory at J.P. Stevens, textile workers have continued gaining ground as we take a look at the fabric of life in Southern mill towns.
(Issue #95, Spring 1994) $5.

Building South
Urban decay and neighborhood preservation, landscape design and rural development. Kentucky Fried design and mill village restoration, Army Corps of Engineers waterway projects, and craftbuilders, old and new.
(Issue #29, Spring 1980) $5.

Fishy Business
The catfish industry is booming -- overtaking cotton as the Mississippi Delta's leading crop -- but the plantation mentality remains. White profits, black labor; the crippling of a work force; the Delta Pride Strike; workers and activists organize a " second civil rights movement." Also, excerpts from the 1991-1992 Green Index.
(Issue #85, Fall 1991) $5.

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