A common thread : labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry /

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"With important ramifications for studies relating to industrialization and the impact of globalization, A Common Thread examines the relocation of the New England textile industry to the piedmont South between 1880 and 1959. Through the example of the Massachusetts-based Dwight Manufacturing C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: English, Beth Anne, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2006.
Colección:Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
Temas:
Dwight Manufacturing Company > History.
Dwight Manufacturing Company.
Cotton textile industry > Location > Alabama > History.
Cotton textile industry > Massachusetts > History.
Tissus de coton > Industrie > Localisation > Alabama > Histoire.
Tissus de coton > Industrie > Massachusetts > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Cotton textile industry.
Verlagerung
Baumwollindustrie
Alabama.
Massachusetts.
Alabama
Massachusetts
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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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