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Tangled : organizing the southern textile industry, 1930-1934 / Travis Sutton Byrd.
Lippincott Library HD5325.T4 B95 2018
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byrd, Travis Sutton, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile industry.
- History.
- Textile workers--Labor unions.
- Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry.
- Economic conditions.
- North Carolina--Economic conditions--20th century.
- North Carolina.
- Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Textile workers--Labor unions--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Textile workers.
- Textile industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "In Travis Sutton Byrd's second exploration of the North Carolina textile industry, he probes more broadly the 1929 labor strikes and connects them with the events of 1934 and a larger, economically depressed North Carolina over a five year period. Byrd contends that the five years of labor strife discussed in this study broadly represent the death of the New South resurgence in North Carolina as a myriad of small, industrial towns throughout the mountain and Piedmont region felt the weight of the Great Depression"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: maps and legends, history and historiography
- 1930-1931
- To organize the South
- Coalitionism, communism, and the politics of labor
- A long season for malcontents
- Greensboro and Bessemer City
- Riding that Danville train
- Many unhappy returns
- 1932
- "Southern labor stirs"
- "Calibre tests"
- 1934
- Infamous eagle
- "The pit and the pendulum, 1934"
- Denouement
- All the tangled threads, 1934-1939
- Postscript: where do we go from there?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Byrd, Travis Sutton. Tangled.
- ISBN:
- 9781621904076
- 1621904075
- OCLC:
- 1015258916
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