A common thread : labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry / Beth English.
| Author/creator |
English, Beth Anne, 1973- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2006. |
| Description | x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
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| Series | Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South. ^A703323 |
| Contents | "Positively alarming" : Southern boosters, Piedmont Mills, and New England responses -- "Manufacturers surely cannot be expected to continue" : legislation, labor, and depression -- "A model manufacturing town" : moving to Alabama City -- "Small help" : unionization, capital mobility, and child-labor laws in Alabama -- "A general demoralization of business" : the textile depression of the 1920s -- "Dissatisfaction among labor" : the 1934 general strike -- "We kept right on organizin'" : from defeat to victory and back again. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006010716 |
| ISBN | 0820326283 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780820326283 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | HD9879.D95 E54 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |