Honey, Michael K

Presents first-hand accounts of the experiences of African-American workers from the 1930s through the 1990s, providing insight into the conditions under which they worked and the struggles they waged to improve their lives at work and in society.

Recounts the events surrounding the 1968 public-employee strike in Memphis that paralyzed the city and led to a complete overhaul of the city's plantation mentality that set the predominately African-American public workers apart from their upper-class white counterparts.