"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution
Reportage
Description
A six-part series involving reporters going undercover to work in the turpentine woods and as a motel maid as part of a deep examination of the underpaid worker in Georgia.
Reporters
Media History
The reporting was intended for these media types: Newspaper
Effects and Outcomes
The series won the Grand Prize at the 1980 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
Articles, Books, Video/Film
Intro: "The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution
December 1, 1979
Introduction to the Atlanta Constitution's six-part series on Georgia's lowest wage earners. The facsimiles come ...I-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "The Turpentine Men: Hard Woods Toil for Little Pay"
December 1, 1979
Lee May spends a week working with the turpentine men of the South Georgia woods to learn about their lives in Part ...IA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected"- Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "For Many Americans, Work Pays Off in Poverty"
December 1, 1979
The Constitution found underpaid workers in these industries: ice plants, poultry, gas stations, deer tongue, motels.IB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Charles Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Junior Sears: A Man Born to Turpentine"
December 1, 1979
Profile of Junior SearsIC-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "L.D. Davis: 'Boss Had The Pencil'"
December 1, 1979
Profile of L.D.Davis, one of the turpentine laborers, who got out of the "web of work" to be "his own man" through a ...ID-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Jim Palmer: He Recalls Bad Days in the Woods"
December 1, 1979
Profile of Jim Palmer, who recalls life as a worker in the turpentine woods.II-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Endless Debt Haunts Turpentiners"
December 2, 1979
The second part in Goolrick and Lieberman's series discusses the endless debts and lack of options of turpentiners.IIA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Naval Stores Ages-Old, but Few Like Living in the Past"
December 2, 1979
Naval stores are the ingredients used in scores of products "from paint thinner and wood stains to medicated soaps ...III-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "No Golden Eggs in Georgia's Chicken Sheds: Whole Families Labor On Poultry Farms to Earn Paycheck of a Single Workman""
December 3, 1979
The third installment in the series by Lieberman and Goolrick describes the involvement of whole families in work on ...IV-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Charles Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Motels, Gas Stations: Motel Maid's Wages Fall Into Crevice in the Law"
December 4, 1979
A look at the lives of underpaid motel maids in Georgia. Charlene Smith-Williams worked as a motel maid for the ...IVA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Some 'Surprised . . . I Pay $2.50'"
December 4, 1979
Sidebar with Jane Love, who with her husband Sandy, owned and managed the "38-unit Rose Garden Motel on Interstate ...IVB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Unique Deductions Push Pay Below U.S. Minimum"
December 4, 1979
Sidebar about a laundry presser.V-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Ice Toters, Ministore Clerks: Over 40 Years, A Corporation's Pattern of Underpaying Workers"
December 5, 1979
Reporters look into the pattern of underpaying workers at the Atlantic Co., Inc., an Atlanta-based conglomerate that ...VA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Munford: Minimum Wage a Tragic Thing"
December 5, 1979
Dillard Munford, whose company runs Majik Markets, the nation's second-largest convenience store chain, decries the ...VI-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Work Ethic Alive Amidst Poverty: They'd Rather Collect Weeds Than Welfare"
December 6, 1979
Constitution finds the American work ethic alive and well, even at the lowest paid level of employment.VIA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Wage Enforcers Overwhelmed by Complaints"
December 6, 1979
The final entry in the "Underpaid and Under-protected" series dives into what happens with workers' complaints.VIB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Beverly Worrell Has Done Battle 38 Years for Nation's Underpaid"
December 6, 1979
Sidebar profile of Beverly Worrell, an attorney who has devoted his career to fighting for the rights of underpaid ...Response: "Pulse of the Public: 'Underpaid ...' Series: 'Excellent Work'" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution
December 7, 1979
A short letter to the newspaper, responding to the "Underpaid and Under-protected" series by Chester Goolrick and ...