Beginning with the surge of interest in slavery a generation ago, theSouth has steadily emerged as an integral part of America's labor past.From the mid-1970s into the early 1990s, attention flowed chiefly to the periodfrom Reconstruction through World War One. And pathbreaking studies continue toappear on the women and men, white and black, who worked the farms, homes,docks, mines, forests, craft-shops, railroads, factories, and service trades ofthe New South. Lately, though, the frontier of research has shifted to the erasof the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), World War Two, the early ColdWar, and the civil rights movement—a chapter of Southern labor historyonce left to journalists, activists, and social scientists. Southern Laborin Transition, 1940–1995, edited by Robert H. Zieger, offers avaluable road map of current scholarship.