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In the 1970's, textile workers joined forces with a small band of grassroots activists and organizers and challenged the most powerful industrial interest in the heart of Dixie-the cotton textile manufacturers. They located disabled workers and organized them, employing the full range of interest- group tactics, and they creatively engaged in legislative, administrative, and judicial lobbying as well as protest actions-with remarkable success. Robert E. Botsch recounts the history of the Brown Lung Association and details the interaction of the major participants in the rise-and ultimately the...

Textile workers --- Cotton dust --- Byssinosis --- Cotton manufacture --- Textile industry --- Employees --- Dust --- Brown lung --- Lungs --- Cotton mills --- Health and hygiene --- Health aspects --- Social aspects --- Dust diseases --- Diseases --- Brown Lung Association --- Carolina Brown Lung Association --- History.