This book uses the landmark case Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union to examine the strategies of prison inmates using race and radicalism to inspire the formation of an inmate labor union.

Autorentext
DONALD F. TIBBS Associate Professor of Law at the Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University, USA.

Inhalt
PART I: FOUNDATIONS * At the Q * Negroes with Guns * The Trial of Huey P. Newton * PART II: FORMATIONS * Souls on Ice * A Crisis Erupts * From a Spark to a Raging Fire * PART III: LITIGATIONS * Coalitions * We Have a Union! * Won and Appealed * Anatomy of a Decision