Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press

Authors

  • Joe Atkins

Abstract

The Southern press has played a crucial role in keeping its region dependent on comparatively cheap, nonunionized labor to attract outside industry, a region that today is perhaps more racially enlightened than ever before but whose political, business, and media leaders remain as opposed to unions as their predecessors once were to civil rights activists.

Author Biography

Joe Atkins

Joe Atkins

is a professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. A veteran journalist and former congressional correspondent, he is the editor and co-author of The Mission: Journalism, Ethics and the World, a book of essays published by the Iowa State Press in 2002. A frequent writer on labor issues, he organized a "Conference on Labor and the Southern Press" at the University of Mississippi in October 2003 and is working on a book on the same topic.

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Published

2006-03-01

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2006)

Section

Articles