Publications of Robert Korstad    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Books

  1. Korstad, RR; Leloudis, JL. To right these wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the battle to end poverty and inequality in 1960s America. January, 2010. 1-436 pp. [available here]  [abs]
  2. Korstad, RR. Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003. 556 pages pp. [available here]  [abs]
  3. Chafe, WH; Gavins, R; Korstad, R. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South. Edited by William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad. New Press, January, 2001. 346 pages pp. [html]  [abs]
  4. Korstad, R; Jones, LA. Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2000. 500 pages pp.  [abs]
  5. Korstad, RR. Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1940-1990. Chapel Hill: The School of Public Health, 1990. 192 pages pp.
  6. with Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Mary Murphy, LuAnn Jones, Christopher B. Daly. Like A Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. (W. W. Norton paperback, 1989; anniversary edition with new afterword by the authors and preface by Michael Frisch (UNC Press, 2000)) [available here]

Journal Articles

  1. Korstad, R. "Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty." JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY 76.3 (2010): 789-790. [Gateway.cgi]
  2. Korstad, RR. "Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle." American Communist History 8.2 (December, 2008): 255-258.
  3. Korstad, RR. "Child Labor." Tar Heel Junior Historian 39 (Fall, 1999): 28-30.
  4. with James Leloudis. "Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the War on Poverty." Law and Contemporary Problems 62 (1999): 177-197. (Reprinted in The New Deal and Beyond (University of Georgia Press, 2003)
  5. with Griffin, LJ; Korstad, RR. "Historical inference and event-structure analysis." International Review of Social History 43.6 (January, 1998): 145-165. [doi]
  6. with Griffin, LJ. "Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South." Social Science History 19.4 (Winter, 1995): 425-454. [doi]
  7. Korstad, RR. "Documentary projects for refugee and displaced children in Southern Africa." Journal of Social Development in Africa 8.2 (January, 1993): 61-72.  [abs]
  8. Korstad, R. "Response: The Possibilities for Racial Egalitarianism: Context Matters." International Labor and Working Class History 44 (January, 1993): 41-44. [doi]
  9. R.R. Korstad. "Louise 'Mama' Harris." Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1993): 538.
  10. KORSTAD, R. "THE POSSIBILITIES FOR RACIAL EGALITARIANISM, CONTEXT MATTERS." INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY 44.44 (Fall, 1993): 41-44. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  11. Fee, E; Korstad, RR. "Women health workers: past and present.." American journal of public health 82.2 (February, 1992): 165-166. [doi]
  12. Fee, E; Korstad, RR. "Understanding history to shape the future - The new editors' vision." American Journal of Public Health 81.6 (January, 1991): 781-782. [doi]
  13. R.R. Korstad. "R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike of 1947." Encyclopedia of Labor Conflict (1990): 431-3.
  14. Korstad, RR. "Fighting for Our Lives: The School of Public Health Marks 50 Years of Change and Challenge." Carolina Alumni Review 78 (Fall, 1989): 50-57.
  15. R.R. Korstad. "Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers." Encyclopedia of the American Left (1989): 234-35.
  16. with Korstad, R; Lichtenstein, N. "Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement." The Journal of American History 75.3 (December, 1988): 786-786. (Reprinted in Major Problems in the History of American Workers, eds. Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1991); Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle, eds. Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor (New York: New York University Press, 2000); U. S. Labor in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Working-Class Struggles and Insurgencies, eds. John Hinshaw and Paul Le Blanc (New York: Humanity Books, 2000)) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  17. with Hall, JD; Korstad, R; Leloudis, J. "Cotton Mill People: Work, Community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940." The American Historical Review 91.2 (April, 1986): 245-245. (Reprinted in Major Problems in the History of the American South, eds. Paul D. Escott and David Goldfield (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1990); Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, ed. Leon Fink (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1992); Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II., eds. Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle (New York, McGraw-Hill/Duskin, 2001)) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  18. R.R. Korstad. "Those Who Were Not Afraid." Working Lives (1980): 184-199.

Chapters in Books

  1. Korstad, R. "Curing my historical schizophrenia." Becoming Southern Writers Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner. January, 2016: 135-138. [doi]
  2. Hall, JD; Korstad, R; Leloudis, J. "Cotton mill people: Work, community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940." Intersection of Work and Family Life. February, 2013: 497-538.
  3. Korstad, R. "Could History Repeat Itself? The Prospects for a Second Reconstruction in Post-World War II South Carolina,." Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century. University of South Carolina Press, 2008
  4. Korstad, R. "NORTH CAROLINA FUND." Poverty in the United States an Encyclopedia of History Politics and Policy Volume 1 2. January, 2004: 514-515.

Book Reviews

  1. Korstad, R. The color of work: The struggle for civil rights in the Southern paper industry, 1945-1980.  JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY 69.1 (February, 2003): 226-227. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  2. Jane Webb Smith. Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life.  Journal of American History 78 (December, 1991): 1018-23.
  3. Korstad, R. A medical investigation..  Science (New York, N.Y.) 251.5000 (March, 1991): 1507-1508. [17779445], [doi]
  4. Nannie M. Tilley. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.  Technology and Culture 27 (July, 1986): 639-40.
  5. Korstad, R; Tilley, NM. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.  Technology and Culture 27.3 (July, 1986): 639-639. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]

Book Chapter

  1. R.R. Korstad. "Louise 'Mama' Harris." Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Roselyn Terborg-Penn New York: Garland Publishing, 1993: 538.
  2. R.R. Korstad. "R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike or 1947." Encyclopedia of Labor Conflict. Ed. Ronald Filpelli New York: Garland Publishing, 1990: 431-3.
  3. R.R. Korstad. "Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers." Encyclopedia of the American Left. Ed. Mary Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Gerogakas New York: Garland Publishing, 1989: 234-35.

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