| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout. By Timothy J. Minchin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 233 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. $55.00 Cloth.
During the past one hundred years, multinational corporations have experienced two threats to their hegemony: unionism and environmentalism. Traditionally, however, these two movements confronted the corporate world separately, often with opposing viewpoints and goals. With Forging a Common Bond, Timothy Minchin reveals a shift in this dichotomy and delineates the creation of an alliance among unionists and environmentalists for common goals. This revelation marks a shift in both labor and environmental history, making this volume in the New Perspectives on the History of the South a timely contribution.	1
Minchin tells of an epic battle from 1984 to 1989 between the German-owned Badische Anilin and Soda-Fabrik (BASF) and the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Worker's International Union (OCAW) over operation of BASF's chemical plant at Geismar, Louisiana. Minchin recounts the five-year lockout and introduces the players who are obvious—corporate executives and labor leaders—and those less obvious—the workers' mothers and girlfriends, the German union I. G. Chemie, African American residents, public relations gurus, and a collage of environmentalists.	. . .

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