Unraveled : Labor Strife and Carolina Folk during the Marion Textile Strikes of 1929 /

It was called "the summer of dynamite." In 1929, on the eve of the Great Depression, the southern textile belt--from the rayon mills of upper East Tennessee to the bleacheries and weave rooms of the Carolina piedmont--exploded in a full-on civil war marked by political intrigue, kidnapping...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byrd, Travis Sutton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Textile workers > Labor unions.
Textile industry.
Social conditions.
Industrial relations.
Relations industrielles > Caroline du Nord > Marion > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Travailleurs du textile > Syndicats > Caroline du Nord > Marion > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Textiles et tissus > Industrie et commerce > Caroline du Nord > Marion > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Industrial relations > North Carolina > Marion > History > 20th century.
Textile workers > Labor unions > North Carolina > Marion > History > 20th century.
Textile industry > North Carolina > Marion > History > 20th century.
Textile Workers' Strike, Marion, N.C., 1929.
North Carolina > Marion.
Marion (N.C.) > History > 20th century.
Marion (N.C.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Paradox of J. Will Pless
  • Battleground Marion
  • To Organize the South.

Similar Items