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Author Haberland, Michelle.

Title Striking beauties : women apparel workers in the u.s. south, 1930-2000 / Michelle Haberland.

Publication Info. Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2015.

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Edition 1st edition.
Description 1 online resource
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The place of apparel in the history of southern industrialization -- There wasn't any jobs for women -- When you cease to be ladies, we will arrest you -- Rough women -- When the government required you to hire them -- Look for the union label -- Sweatshops in the sun -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary Apparrel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking Beauties, Michelle Haberland examines its essential features and the varied experiences of its workers during the industry's great expansion from the late 1930s through the demise of its southern branch of the twentieth century.
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Subject Labor -- Southern States -- History.
Labor.
Southern States.
History.
Clothing and dress -- Southern States -- History.
Clothing and dress.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Haberland, Michelle. Striking beauties : women apparel workers in the u.s. south, 1930-2000. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, ©2015 xi, 228 pages 9780820325842
ISBN 9780820347547 (electronic book)
082034754X (electronic book)
9780820325842 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780820347424 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0820325848
0820347426