A common thread : labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry / / Beth English.
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| Superior document: | Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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| Physical Description: | x, 236 p. :; ill. |
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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.