Download or read book Like a Family written by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1989 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Methodologically the book is significant in its subtle blend of oral and traditional history....Like a family is that rare compelling book, a delight for the academic and public, with much to say to both.' --Orville Vernon Burton, Journal of American History

Download or read book Mill Family written by Cathy L. McHugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-04-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing cotton textile industry of the postbellum South required a stable and reliable work force made up of laborers with varied skills. At the same time, Southern agriculture was in a depressed state. Families, especially those with many children, were therefore forced to look for work in the textile mills. Mill managers, in their own interest, created the basis for a distinctive social and economic structure: the Southern cotton mill village. These villages, which included such accoutrements as good schools for the children, were paternalistic work environments designed to attract this desirable source of workers. This book examines the role of the family labor system in the early evolution of the postbellum Southern cotton textile industry, revealing how the mill village served as a focal point of economic and social cohesion as well as an institution for socializing and stabilizing its workers. The paternalism of the mill villages was not merely an instrument of capitalistic indoctrination, contends McHugh, but was shaped by market forces. McHugh employs a valuable body of archival material from the Alamance Mill, an important cotton textile mill in North Carolina, to illustrate her arguments.

Download or read book Labor in Southern Cotton Mills written by Paul Blanshard and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Paternalism and Protest written by Melton Alonza McLaurin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Negro Universities Press publication.

Download or read book The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South written by Broadus Mitchell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] THE RISE OF COTTON MILLS IN THE SOUTH CHAPTER I THE BACKGROUND This opening chapter undertakes a broad survey in brief compass of the historical and economic background out of which the cotton manufacturing industry of the South, as a distinct development, emerged. Thus to begin the story of the rise of the mills with discussion of a period which commences a century in advance, is not unlike the production of a [...]".

Download or read book Like Night and Day written by Daniel J. Clark and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Specifically, Clark points to the importance members placed on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have seen as impediments rather than improvements. From the signing of contracts in 1943 until a devastating strike fifteen years later, the union gave local workers the tools they needed to secure at least some measure of workplace autonomy and respect from their employer. Union-instituted grievance procedures were not without flaws, says Clark, but they were the linchpin of these efforts. When arbitration and grievance agreements collapsed in 1958, the result was the strike that ultimately broke the union. Based on complete access to company archives and transcripts of grievance hearings, this case study recasts our understanding of labor-management relations in the postwar South.

Download or read book A Discussion of Some Problems Confronting the Southern Textile Industry written by William Dickson Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South written by Broadus Mitchell and published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Labor Management Relations in the Southern Textile Manufacturing Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Voice of Southern Labor written by Vincent J. Roscigno and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1934 strike of southern textile workers, involving nearly 400,000 mill hands, remains perhaps the largest collective mobilization of workers in U.S. history. How these workers came together in the face of the powerful and coercive opposition of management and the state is the remarkable story at the center of this book. The Voice of Southern Labor chronicles the lives and experiences of southern textile workers and provides a unique perspective on the social, cultural, and historical forces that came into play when the group struck, first in 1929, and then on a massive scale in 1934. The workers' grievances, solidarity, and native radicalism of the time were often reflected in the music they listened to and sang, and Vincent J. Roscigno and William F. Danaher offer an in-depth context for understanding this intersection of labor, politics, and culture. The authors show how the message of the southern mill hands spread throughout the region with the advent of radio and the rise of ex-mill worker musicians, and how their sense of opportunity was further bolstered by Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio speeches and policies. Vincent J. Roscigno is associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University. William F. Danaher is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Charleston.

Download or read book Hiring the Black Worker written by Timothy J. Minchin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980

Download or read book The Industrial Revolution in the South written by Broadus Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hanging by a Thread written by Jeffrey Leiter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanging by a Thread brings together research by sociologists and historians on textile workers in the southern United States. What emerges is an important case study of the effects of industrialization, modernization, and the development of capitalism on a fragile industry.

Download or read book Labor management Relations in the Southern Textile Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: