The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781570034213
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Manufacturing industries; Social history; U.S. Local History - Southern States; History: American; Textile And Clothing Industries (Economic Aspects); United States - State & Local - General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Textile workers; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; USA; Industries - General; Economic History; Business & Economics / Economic History; History : United States - State & Local - General; United States - 20th Century; Working class; Cotton manufacture; Cotton textile industry; Southern States
First sentence: This opening chapter undertakes a brief survey of the historical and economic background out of which the cotton manufacturing industry of the South, as a distinct development, emerged.
Description: "The First Full-Length Account of the advent of the cotton-textile industry in the region, The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South immediately defined industrialization in the rural South upon its publication in 1921. Its influence was widely felt by southern intellectuals and shaped the interpretation of southern industrialization in many ways. Broadus Mitchell's idealistic chronicle of the southern textile industry founders reads as a progressive's endorsement of a southern industrial "revolution from above", to elevate the South from its economic and cultural doldrums. Mitchell viewed industrialization as necessary for southern progress and believed that its benefits to the South ultimately reached far beyond its profits to mill owners. In a lengthy introduction, David L. Carlton further explores the life and economic philosophies of Mitchell -- giving a sturdy framework to this history and reinforcing it as a valuable assessment of a historical moment." - publisher.