Southern Exposure is an award-winning print journal and magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation and won several awards, including a National Magazine Award and two George Polk Awards, for its writing and investigative reporting on a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues in the South.

Vol. 18 No. 3 - Fall 1990
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Magazine cover with photo of man in hard hat and right arm in cast, reading "Sunbelt Blues: where have all the good jobs gone?"

Sunbelt Blues

  • Dateline: The South

    Compiled by Jeff Moore

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  • Southern News Roundup

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  • Gavelgate

    A Supreme Court justice violated the Constitution by serving as an unpaid informer for LBJ and the FBI. By Alexander Charns.

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  • The South at Work

    A look at labor in the region: where we work and what we earn. An Institute Report.

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  • Factory Clearance

    Three years after the largest layoff in city history, Durham workers still struggle to make ends meet. By Barry Yeoman.

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  • Work-A-Day Blues

    Labor pools are spreading across the South, offering $25 a day for dangerous part-time work. By Adam Feuerstein.

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  • Borderline Jobs

    As factories close across the South, U.S. companies have opened hundreds of maquiladoras in Mexico. But who benefits? By Lou Dubose and Ellen Hosmer.

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  • Confessions of a Union Buster

    A management consultant reveals how he turned workers against unions. Interview by Nancy Peckenham.

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  • Two Steps Forward

    Fifteen years after they joined the union, textile workers build on their success in coastal South Carolina. By Nancy Peckenham.

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  • Nissan is Not the Norm

    Recent union victories show that Southern workers are joining ranks to win contracts and job security. By Ellen Spears.

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  • Southern Voices: Away O'ee!

    By Peter Gallagher

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  • Fiction: Holding Allie

    By Dennis Covington

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  • Taxing Our Patience

    Citizens in Southern states are fighting for a fair tax system that will share the wealth. By Tom Hilliard.

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  • Breaking the Hick'ry Stick

    One Georgia school is trying a nonviolent system of discipline. But do the kids behave? By Diana Hembree.

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  • The Last Word

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