Hanging by a Thread : Social Change in Southern Textiles /

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Hanging by a Thread brings together research by sociologists and historians on textile workers in the southern United States. The volume is divided into sections covering the history industrialization and labor recruitment in the industry, paternalism and worker protest, and a section analyzing cont...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Leiter, Jeffrey (Autor, Contribuidor), Schulman, Michael (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bonham, Julia C. (Contribuidor), Dredge, Bart (Contribuidor), Frankel, Linda (Contribuidor), Freeze, Gary R. (Contribuidor), Gaventa, John (Contribuidor), Gullickson, Gay L. (Contribuidor), Judkins, Bennett M. (Contribuidor), Leiter, Jiffrey (Contribuidor), Penn, Roger (Contribuidor), Schulman, Michael D. (Contribuidor), Simon, Bryant (Contribuidor), Smith, Barbara Ellen (Contribuidor), Zingraff, Rhonda (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • PART I. Introduction
  • 1. Southern Textiles: Contested Puzzles and Continuing Paradoxes
  • PART II. Industrialization and Labor Recruitment
  • 2. Poor Girls Who Might Otherwise Be Wretched: The Origins of Paternalism in North Carolina's Mills, 1836-1880
  • 3. Technology, Gender, and Rural Culture: Normandy and the Piedmont
  • 4. Determinants of Industrialization on the North American "Periphery"
  • PART III. Paternalism and Worker Protest
  • 5. Choosing between the Ham and the Union: Paternalism in the Cone Mills of Greensboro, 1925-1930
  • 6. "Jesus Leads Us, Cooper Needs Us, the Union Feeds Us": The 1958 Harriet-Henderson Textile Strike
  • 7. The Brown Lung Association and Grass-Roots Organizing
  • PART IV. Contemporary Problems
  • 8 Employment Patterns zn the British and U.S. Textile Industries: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Gender Changes
  • 9. Robotics, Electronics, and the American Textile Industry
  • 10. The Deindustrialization of the Textile South: A Case Study
  • PART V. Conclusion
  • 11. Facing Extinction?
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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