A common thread [electronic resource] : labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry / Beth English.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Politics and culture in the twentieth-century SouthPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.Description: x, 236 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.7/677210973 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9879.D95 E54 2006eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.

"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.

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