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Author English, Beth Anne, 1973-

Title A common thread : labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry / Beth English.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
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.
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Subject Dwight Manufacturing Company -- History.
Dwight Manufacturing Company.
History.
Dwight Manufacturing Company -- History.
Cotton textile industry -- Location -- Alabama -- History.
Cotton textile industry.
Alabama.
Cotton textile industry -- Massachusetts -- History.
Massachusetts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: English, Beth Anne, 1973- Common thread. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2006 9780820326283 (DLC) 2006010716 (OCoLC)65407295
ISBN 9780820336695 (electronic book)
0820336696 (electronic book)
0820326283 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780820326283 (hardback)