num_pages: 500
description: 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
language: English
title: Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
titlecomplete: Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
genres: History, American History, Labor, Read For School, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 126
series: Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Albert J. Beveridge Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Merle Curti Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press