Southern workers and the search for community : Spartanburg County, South Carolina / G.C. Waldrep III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldrep, G. C. (George Calvin), 1968-

Series:

Working class in American history

The working class in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile workers--Labor unions.

History.

Textile workers.

Manners and customs.

Spartanburg County (S.C.).

Textile workers--South Carolina--Spartanburg County--History.

Textile workers--South Carolina--Spartanburg County--Social life and customs.

Textile workers--Labor unions--South Carolina--Spartanburg County--History.

South Carolina--Spartanburg County.

Physical Description:

xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2000]

Summary:

An eloquent study of the hopes and fears that define patterns of labor activism, Southern Workers and the Search for Community is the first major effort to interpret the enduring legacy of the southern textile industry, company-owned mill villages, and the union struggles of the 1930s. G. C. Waldrep opens the gates of southern company towns to show how the erosion or outright destruction of community systematically undermined the ability of workers to respond to the assaults of employers overwhelmingly supported by government agencies and agents.

Contents:

Shared lives : the textile communities of Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Hope rising : the National Recovery Act and textile unionism in Spartanburg County

"It's now or never" : the general textile strike of 1934, part 1

"Getting our throats cut" : the general textile strike of 1934, part 2

Dealt out : Spartanburg workers and the Roosevelt Administration, 1934-39

Southern textile unionism and the 1930s : meaning and memory

The politics of survival

Last stand : the Clifton Strike of 1949-50

Hope, fear, and the risks of public life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and index.

ISBN:

0252025873

0252069013

OCLC:

42842309