Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association

By Robert E Botsch

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813151368
• ISBN13: 9780813151366
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher