Robert Korstad
Biographic Data
| ID | 342450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Korstad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Korstad |
| SIGNATURE | KORSTAD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice
Highlander Center has been indispensable to the struggle for social and economic justice in the US South. Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and others as the Highlander Folk School, the center has transformed itself over the years to meet the challenges of the times. Initially, Highlander focused on the educational and organizational needs of working-class people in East Tennessee. In the late 1930s and 1940s it served primarily as a training cente…
Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice
Highlander Center has been indispensable to the struggle for social and economic justice in the US South. Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and others as the Highlander Folk School, the center has transformed itself over the years to meet the challenges of the times. Initially, Highlander focused on the educational and organizational needs of working-class people in eastern Tennessee. In the late 1930s and 1940s it served primarily as a training ce…
Opportunities Found and Lost
This chapter explores two examples of the workplace-oriented civil rights militancy that arose in the 1940s—one in the South and one in the North. It analyzes the unionization of predominantly black tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the ferment in the United Auto Workers in Detroit, Michigan, that made that city a center of black working-class activism in the North. Similar movements took root among newly organized workers in …
Rethinking Operation Dixie
Ten years ago, I spoke at a rally before a National Labor Relations Board election at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A month earlier, organizers from the International Association of Machinists (IAM) had “discovered” that there had been a union in Reynolds in the 1940s and that I had written a book about it. They wanted me to tell IAM supporters about that earlier victory and inspire them to do it again.At ab…
What's Sex Got to Do with It: Gender and the New Black Freedom Movement Scholarship
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners, and shored up white supremacy. Galvanized by th…
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South
Following the reissue of Remembering Slavery comes this landmark collection of interviews about African American life under segregation, with audio CD>
Historical Inference and Event-Structure Analysis
Event-structure analysis (ESA) is a member of a family of formal analytic procedures designed to analyze and interpret text, in particular the temporal sequences constituting the narrative of a historical event. Its basic purpose is to aid the analyst in “unpacking” an event – that is, in breaking it into constituent parts – and analytically reconstituting it as a causal interpretation of what happened and why it happened as it did. ESA focuses o…
Class as Race and Gender|Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South
Early in 1944 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified Local 22 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) as the bargaining agent for manufacturing workers at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The local was built and largely sustained by the collective actions of African Americans, especially women, who quickly made it the primary institutional locus a…
Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South
Piedmont Mill Workers and the Politics of History
RARELY IS A HISTORIAN presented with such an opportunity to reflect on the deepest matters of historical method and analysis. These two books have a remarkable amount in common — subject, sources, origin in a collaborative project, and even a leftist politics rooted in a shared generational experience — and yet they offer profoundly different interpretations of the history of southern cotton mill workers and their world. The pedagogical allure is…
Understanding History to Shape the Future—The New Editors' Vision
Understanding History to Shape the Future—The New Editors' Vision Elizabeth Fee, and Robert R. Korstad CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.81.6.781 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life
“Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life.” Valentine Museum, 1015 East Clay St., Richmond, VA 23219. Traveling exhibition, April 5–Oct. 9, 1990, Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA; Feb. 2–Sept. 8, 1991, Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, MA. 2,000 sq. ft. Jane Webb Smith, exhibit curator; Get access Robert Korstad Robert Korstad Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915
Like a Family. The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Journal Article Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xxxiii + 468 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $12.95.) Get access Orville Vernon Burton Orville Vernon Burton University of Illinois, Urbana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Southern Mill Workers
Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement
Journal Article Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement Get access Robert Korstad, Robert Korstad historian with the School of Public Health University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nelson Lichtenstein Nelson Lichtenstein associate professor of history Catholic University of America Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Annotation
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement
Journal Article Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement Get access Robert Korstad, Robert Korstad historian with the School of Public Health University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nelson Lichtenstein Nelson Lichtenstein associate professor of history Catholic University of America Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Historical Inference and Event-Structure Analysis
Event-structure analysis (ESA) is a member of a family of formal analytic procedures designed to analyze and interpret text, in particular the temporal sequences constituting the narrative of a historical event. Its basic purpose is to aid the analyst in “unpacking” an event – that is, in breaking it into constituent parts – and analytically reconstituting it as a causal interpretation of what happened and why it happened as it did. ESA focuses o…
Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South
Class as Race and Gender|Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South
Early in 1944 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified Local 22 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) as the bargaining agent for manufacturing workers at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The local was built and largely sustained by the collective actions of African Americans, especially women, who quickly made it the primary institutional locus a…
Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life
“Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life.” Valentine Museum, 1015 East Clay St., Richmond, VA 23219. Traveling exhibition, April 5–Oct. 9, 1990, Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA; Feb. 2–Sept. 8, 1991, Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, MA. 2,000 sq. ft. Jane Webb Smith, exhibit curator; Get access Robert Korstad Robert Korstad Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Annotation
Southern Mill Workers
Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement
Journal Article Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement Get access Robert Korstad, Robert Korstad historian with the School of Public Health University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nelson Lichtenstein Nelson Lichtenstein associate professor of history Catholic University of America Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Journal Article Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xxxiii + 468 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $12.95.) Get access Orville Vernon Burton Orville Vernon Burton University of Illinois, Urbana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915
Like a Family. The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Understanding History to Shape the Future—The New Editors' Vision
Understanding History to Shape the Future—The New Editors' Vision Elizabeth Fee, and Robert R. Korstad CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.81.6.781 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life
“Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life.” Valentine Museum, 1015 East Clay St., Richmond, VA 23219. Traveling exhibition, April 5–Oct. 9, 1990, Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA; Feb. 2–Sept. 8, 1991, Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, MA. 2,000 sq. ft. Jane Webb Smith, exhibit curator; Get access Robert Korstad Robert Korstad Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Piedmont Mill Workers and the Politics of History
RARELY IS A HISTORIAN presented with such an opportunity to reflect on the deepest matters of historical method and analysis. These two books have a remarkable amount in common — subject, sources, origin in a collaborative project, and even a leftist politics rooted in a shared generational experience — and yet they offer profoundly different interpretations of the history of southern cotton mill workers and their world. The pedagogical allure is…
Class as Race and Gender|Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South
Early in 1944 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified Local 22 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) as the bargaining agent for manufacturing workers at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The local was built and largely sustained by the collective actions of African Americans, especially women, who quickly made it the primary institutional locus a…
Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South
Historical Inference and Event-Structure Analysis
Event-structure analysis (ESA) is a member of a family of formal analytic procedures designed to analyze and interpret text, in particular the temporal sequences constituting the narrative of a historical event. Its basic purpose is to aid the analyst in “unpacking” an event – that is, in breaking it into constituent parts – and analytically reconstituting it as a causal interpretation of what happened and why it happened as it did. ESA focuses o…
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South
Following the reissue of Remembering Slavery comes this landmark collection of interviews about African American life under segregation, with audio CD>
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners, and shored up white supremacy. Galvanized by th…
What's Sex Got to Do with It: Gender and the New Black Freedom Movement Scholarship
Opportunities Found and Lost
This chapter explores two examples of the workplace-oriented civil rights militancy that arose in the 1940s—one in the South and one in the North. It analyzes the unionization of predominantly black tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the ferment in the United Auto Workers in Detroit, Michigan, that made that city a center of black working-class activism in the North. Similar movements took root among newly organized workers in …
Rethinking Operation Dixie
Ten years ago, I spoke at a rally before a National Labor Relations Board election at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A month earlier, organizers from the International Association of Machinists (IAM) had “discovered” that there had been a union in Reynolds in the 1940s and that I had written a book about it. They wanted me to tell IAM supporters about that earlier victory and inspire them to do it again.At ab…
Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice
Highlander Center has been indispensable to the struggle for social and economic justice in the US South. Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and others as the Highlander Folk School, the center has transformed itself over the years to meet the challenges of the times. Initially, Highlander focused on the educational and organizational needs of working-class people in eastern Tennessee. In the late 1930s and 1940s it served primarily as a training ce…
Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice
Highlander Center has been indispensable to the struggle for social and economic justice in the US South. Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and others as the Highlander Folk School, the center has transformed itself over the years to meet the challenges of the times. Initially, Highlander focused on the educational and organizational needs of working-class people in East Tennessee. In the late 1930s and 1940s it served primarily as a training cente…
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