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A common thread : labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry
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- Beth English
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- English
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- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2006]
- ©2006
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- x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780820326283, 9781282552937, 9780820336695, 9786612552939, 0820326283, 661255293X, 0820336696, 9780820329283, 1282552937
- OCLC
- ocn593297189, ocm65407295
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
- "Positively alarming" : Southern boosters, Piedmont Mills, and New England responses -- "Manufacturers surely cannot be expected to continue" : legislation, labor, and depression -- "A model manufacturing town" : moving to Alabama City -- "Small help" : unionization, capital mobility, and child-labor laws in Alabama -- "A general demoralization of business" : the textile depression of the 1920s -- "Dissatisfaction among labor" : the 1934 general strike -- "We kept right on organizin'" : from defeat to victory and back again