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A Southern Strategy For Unions
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 55, Number 2, Spring 2008 (whole No. 231)
- pp. 99-102
- 10.1353/dss.2008.0062
- Article
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Although Jacob Abbott traveled the South in the nineteenth century, my experience in twenty-first-century Texas was eerily similar. Except instead of riding a horse, I drove a Honda Civic. And rather than stopping in for lunch at a plantation, as a union organizer I knocked on doors in suburban developments looking for leaders who could help unite their co-workers and fight the boss. But today, as in Abbott’s time, the workers kindly let a complete stranger into their home, where we would sit down on the couch, drink iced tea, and talk union.