Loading…

A Common Thread : Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: English, Beth Anne, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.