The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth Century South)

by JamesJ.Lorence (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $37.60

  Drawing on extensive archival research, including records of the Communist Party of the United States, Lorence details interactions between various institutional and grassroots players, including organized labor, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, liberal activists, and officials at every level of government.

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $113.03

  In Georgia during the Great Depression, jobless workers united with the urban poor, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In a collective effort that cut across race and class boundaries, they confronted an unresponsive political and social system and helped shape government policies. This book lets us understand the movement.