Striking beauties : women apparel workers in the u.s. south, 1930-2000 / Michelle Haberland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haberland, Michelle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Southern States--History.

Labor.

Clothing and dress--Southern States--History.

Clothing and dress.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking Beauties, Michelle Haberland examines its essential features and the varied experiences of its workers during the industry's great expansion from the late 1930's through the demise of its southern branch of the twentieth century.

Contents:

The place of apparel in the history of southern industrialization

There wasn't any jobs for women

When you cease to be ladies, we will arrest you

Rough women

When the government required you to hire them

Look for the union label

Sweatshops in the sun

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820347424

0820347426

9780820347547

082034754X

OCLC:

904033543