A common thread
Subtitle: labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry
By: Beth English.
Series: Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780820326283; 9789780820329
Subjects: Dwight Manufacturing Company -- History; Cotton textile industry -- Location -- Alabama -- History; Cotton textile industry -- Massachusetts -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Positively alarming" : Southern boosters, Piedmont Mills, and New England responses; title: "Manufacturers surely cannot be expected to continue" : legislation, labor, and depression; title: "A model manufacturing town" : moving to Alabama City; title: "Small help" : unionization, capital mobility, and child-labor laws in Alabama; title: "A general demoralization of business" : the textile depression of the 1920s; title: "Dissatisfaction among labor" : the 1934 general strike; title: "We kept right on organizin'" : from defeat to victory and back again.