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Chris Brooks is a labor journalist from Tennessee and a graduate of the labor studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently works as a staff writer at Labor Notes.
As construction booms in an increasingly progressive city, workers find the power to unionize in the otherwise non-union South.
