The Place of Community in Globalization

It was sometime in early spring 1997 when I first heard about a labor conflict in Morganton, N.C., normally a quiet industrial center of 16,000 people perched at the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains. I would soon learn that this was no isolated incident or temporary labor-relations breakdown, but a decade-long war of position between determined and well-organized workers on the one hand and a classically recalcitrant employer on the other. Beginning with an overnight walkout in 1991,

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