From the cotton field to the cotton mill
Subtitle: a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina
By: by Holland Thompson
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Industrialization; Cotton trade; Cotton manufacture; Economic conditions; Textile industry; Company towns; Working class; Child labor
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Thompson's thesis looks at life prior to the Civil War when slavery and farms or plantations were the way of life and compares it to after the Civil War.  The paper looks at the rise of mills, particularly cotton, and the effects on farms as many moved to mill towns where adults and children found jobs.  Also looks at the change in living standards and accepted abodes for homes, the impact of mills on everyday life, employee and employer relationships, African Americans in the work force with whites, children in the workforce, and even comapares wages and cost of items with those in the North.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed Aug. 26, 2002)

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

Text scanned (OCR) by Apex Data Services, Inc.  Images scanned by Tammy Evans. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Melissa Meeks and Natalia Smith.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG)

Transcribed from: From the cotton field to the cotton mill : a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina / by Holland Thompson. New York : Macmillan, 1906. ix, 284, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Signed by author.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.

Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web.

System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.