Life and Labor in a Textile Mill Village
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Textile industry
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Textile industry
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Author : Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807882941
Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice
Author : Marjorie Adella Potwin
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Business & Economics
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Presents recorded observations of mill villages confined mostly to the central Piedmont region, extending from Danville, Virginia to Gainesville, Georgia with more intensive observation made of the cotton-mille people in and near Spartanburg, South Carolina. Specifically addresses population elements, social institutions and organizations, aspects of social legislation, and occupational conditions of the cotton-mill people.
Author : Cathy L. McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Cotton textile industry
ISBN : 0195042999
Employing a valuable body of archival material from the Alamance mill in North Carolina, McHugh here examines the role of the family labor system in the early evolution of the postbellum Southern cotton textile industry and details the development of the mill village.
Author : William Hays Simpson
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Community life
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Author : Jennings Jefferson Rhyne
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Social Science
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Author : Paul Blanshard
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Cotton growing
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Author : Douglas Flamming
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807861464
In Creating the Modern South, Douglas Flamming examines one hundred years in the life of the mill and the town of Dalton, Georgia, providing a uniquely perceptive view of Dixie's social and economic transformation. "Beautifully written, it combines the rich specificity of a case study with broadly applicable synthetic conclusions.--Technology and Culture "A detailed and nuanced study of community development. . . . Creating the Modern South is an important book and will be of interest to anyone in the field of labor history.--Journal of Economic History "A rich and provocative study. . . . Its major contribution to our knowledge of the South is its careful account of the evolution and collapse of mill culture.--Journal of Southern History "Ambitious, and at times provocative, Creating the Modern South is a well-researched, highly readable, and engaging book.--Journal of American History
Author : Terri L. French
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781540216731
In the early 1900s, Huntsville, Alabama, had more spindles than any other city in the South. Cotton fields and mills made the city a major competitor in the textile industry. Entire mill villages sprang up around the factories to house workers and their families. Many of these village buildings are now iconic community landmarks, such as the revitalized Lowe Mill arts facility and the Merrimack Mill Village Historic District. The "lintheads," a demeaning moniker villagers wore as a badge of honor, were hard workers. Their lives were fraught with hardships, from slavery and child labor to factory fires and shutdowns. They endured job-related injuries and illnesses, strikes and the Great Depression. Author Terri L. French details the lives, history and legacy of the workers.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Company towns
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The setting for Lucy's story is a village built near a textile mill for the mill workers and their families. Through the eyes of eleven-year-old Lucy, we see the village in the early 1900s