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Unexpected Foes: World War II Veterans and Labor in the Postwar South.
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- Author(s): Brooks, Jennifer
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Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas; Summer2010, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p27-52, 26p
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The article presents an examination of the failure of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to successfully organize labor unions in Southern States through the Operation Dixie Campaign in the post World War II period. The author shows how the CIO's Southern Organizing Committee (SOC) ultimately failed to organized labor because of their decision to focus unionizing efforts on white World War II veterans. Despite the CIO's progressive attitude towards black civil and economic rights, the SOC failed to hire black or female organizers, did not encourage racially progressive attitudes among staff and removed leftists from their ranks. The author also discusses the role the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 played in discouraging union membership.
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