A common thread [electronic resource] : labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry / Beth English.
By: English, Beth Anne.
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BookSeries: Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South: Publisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006Description: x, 236 p. : ill.Subject(s): Dwight Manufacturing Company -- History | Cotton textile industry -- Location -- Alabama -- History | Cotton textile industry -- Massachusetts -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.7/677210973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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