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Book Review


"Everybody Was Black Down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields. By Robert H. Woodrum. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xvi, 304 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2739-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2879-9.)
A major new book for labor historians and for scholars of the "new southern history," "Everybody Was Black Down There" is a revealing examination of coal mining in Alabama from the New Deal to the present. It investigates complex historical interactions that involve race, unionization, work, technology, and globalization. It is also an eloquent account of black agency and activism in the southern labor movement. . . .
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