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About Southern Labor Studies Association

The mission of the Southern Labor Studies Association is to promote the study, teaching, and preservation of the history of southern labor.

NBN Episodes hosted by Southern Labor Studies Association:

American South November 12, 2023

Resident Strangers

Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama

Jennifer E. Brooks

Hosted by Southern Labor Studies Association
Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal …
American South July 6, 2023

Working in the Magic City

Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami

Thomas A. Castillo

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In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. In Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in …
American South March 10, 2023

Freedom's Dominion

A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Jefferson Cowie

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Jefferson Cowie discusses his book Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Basic Books, 2022), beginning with the book’s origin story, and then tracing the use of …
American South February 15, 2023

Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco

A Discussion with Journalist Victoria Bouloubasis

Victoria Bouloubasis

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Journalist Victoria Bouloubasis discusses her career reporting on agricultural and food labor in North Carolina, her approach to labor journalism, and how she uses histories in her work. "A North …