A common thread
English, Beth Anne, 1973-
A common thread labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry / [electronic resource] : Beth English. - Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006. - x, 236 p. : ill. - Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South . - Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.
"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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Dwight Manufacturing Company--History.
Cotton textile industry--Location--History.--Alabama
Cotton textile industry--History.--Massachusetts
Electronic books.
HD9879.D95 / E54 2006eb
338.7/677210973
A common thread labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry / [electronic resource] : Beth English. - Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006. - x, 236 p. : ill. - Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South . - Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.
"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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Dwight Manufacturing Company--History.
Cotton textile industry--Location--History.--Alabama
Cotton textile industry--History.--Massachusetts
Electronic books.
HD9879.D95 / E54 2006eb
338.7/677210973