Publications of Robert R. Korstad     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South. The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. [html]
  2.  Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South. Edited by William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad. New York, The New Press, 2001. [html]
  3. R.R. Korstad. 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.
  4. 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. R.R. Korstad. "Child Labor." Tar Heel Junior Historian 39 (Fall, 1999): 28-30.
  2. R.R. Korstad and James Leloudis. "Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the War on Poverty." Law and Contemporary Problems 62 (Autumn 1999): 177-97.
  3. with "Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the War on Poverty." Law and Contemporary Problems 62 (Autumn 1999): 177-97. (Reprinted in The New Deal and Beyond (University of Georgia Press, 2003)

Book Reviews

  1. Timothy J. Minchin. The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980.  Journal of Southern History 69 (February, 2003): 226-7.
  2. Jane Webb Smith. Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life.  Journal of American History 78 (December, 1991): 1018-23.
  3. Victoria A. Harden. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease.  Science 251 (March 22, 1991): 1507-1508.
  4. Nannie M. Tilley. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.  Technology and Culture 27 (July, 1986): 639-40.

Papers Published

  1. with Larry J. Griffin. "Historical Inference and Event-Structure Analysis." International Review of Social History 43 (1998): 145-65.
  2. with Larry J. Griffin. "Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South." Social Science History 19 (Winter, 1995): 425-54.
  3. R.R. Korstad. "The Possibilities for Racial Egalitarianism: Context Matters." International Labor and Working-Class History 44 (Fall, 1993): 41-44.
  4. R.R. Korstad. "Documentary Projects for Refugee and Displaced Children in Southern Africa." Journal of Social Work in Africa 8 (1993): 61-72.
  5. R.R. Korstad. "Louise 'Mama' Harris." Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1993): 538.
  6. R.R. Korstad. "R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike of 1947." Encyclopedia of Labor Conflict (1990): 431-3.
  7. R.R. Korstad. "Fighting for Our Lives: The School of Public Health Marks 50 Years of Change and Challenge." Carolina Alumni Review 78 (Fall, 1989): 50-57.
  8. R.R. Korstad. "Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers." Encyclopedia of the American Left (1989): 234-35.
  9. with Nelson Lichtenstein. "Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement." Journal of American History 75 (December, 1988): 786-811. (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))
  10. with Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and James Leloudis. "Cotton Mill People: Work, Community and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940." American Historical Review 91 (April, 1986): 245-286. (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))
  11. R.R. Korstad. "Those Who Were Not Afraid." Working Lives (1980): 184-199.

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.