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Striking Beauties : Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 /
Apparrel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking B...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, GA :
University of Georgia Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Apparrel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking Beauties, Michelle Haberland examines its essential features and the varied experiences of its workers during the industry's great expansion from the late 1930s through the demise of its southern branch of the twentieth century. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (248 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780820347547 |