Why people recommend it
Labor in the South by F. Ray Marshall is a comprehensive historical study documenting the struggles, union organizing activities, and labor movements across the American South. On an episode of Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans cited the book to provide rigorous historical background on violent conflicts during regional textile mill strikes. Evans read directly from Marshall's extensive documentation regarding the employment of notorious strike breakers, such as Pearl Beroff, who arrived with armed gunmen from New York before being deported by local resistance. In another episode of the same podcast, Garrison Davis mentioned Labor in the South as a key supplemental text used to support the research on regional history, alongside other works examining historical racism and political corruption in the United States. Together, the podcast hosts utilized Marshall's detailed historical analysis to ground their narrative accounts of early twentieth-century political figures, corporate opposition to organized labor, and the fierce class struggles that shaped the modern American workforce.
Who recommended it
- Robert Evans Discussed
- Garrison Davis Discussed
Robert Evans — 1 mention
“to quote the book labor in the South by F Ray Marshall who extensively documented this period of Union activity quote It turned out that one employer had hired Pearl beroff a notorious strike breaker who came with 200 hired gunmen from New York to help break the strike but jean had them deported”
Garrison Davis — 1 mention
“so I've I've also kind of supplemented some of the research that that Willie manderson did in that book with a few other books like race and racism in the United States by Charles A Gallagher and Cameron D liard as well as the book labor in the South by F Ray Marshall”