A collection of 10 papers, 6 presented at a March 7, 1998, Festschrift in honor of Gary M. Fink on his retirement from the Georgia State University Dept. of History.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The pursuits of post-exceptionalism : race, gender, class, and politics in the new Southern labor history / Michelle Brattain -- "Give her some of that" : cotton mill girls, family wages, and the question of female independence in the New South / Douglas Flamming -- "The women are asking for BREAD, why give them STONE?" : women, work, and protests in Atlanta and Norfolk during World War I / Tera W. Hunter -- Fearing Eleanor : racial anxieties and wartime rumors in the American South, 1940-1945 / Bryant Simon -- Bell Aircraft comes south : the struggle by Atlanta blacks for jobs during World War II / Merl E. Reed -- Exclusion, fair employment, or interracial unionism : race relations in Florida's shipyards during World War II / Alex Lichtenstein -- A venture into unplowed fields : Daniel Powell and CIO political action in the postwar South / Robert H. Zieger -- Affirmative action and the conservative agenda : President Richard M. Nixon's Philadelphia plan of 1969 / Judith Stein -- The serendipitous historian : Gary M Fink and the shaping of Southern labor history / Clifford Kuhn.