Like a Family
Subtitle: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: July 26, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780807848791
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Manufacturing industries; Social groups & communities; Social history; United States - 20th Century/Depression; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History; United States - State & Local - General; Textile And Clothing Industries (Economic Aspects); Textile factories; History - U.S.; Sociology - Rural; History: American; Central Southern states; United States - 20th Century/20s; History / United States / 20th Century; South; labor studies; North Carolina; women; American studies; cotton mill industry ; oral history; United States - 20th Century; Cotton trade; Employees; Social conditions; Southern States
First sentence: BEFORE THEY TENDED MACHINES, Piedmont textile workers tended the land.