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Hanging by a Thread : Social Change in Southern Textiles / Jeffrey Leiter, Michael Schulman; Rhonda Zingraff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leiter, Jeffrey, Author.
- Schulman, Michael, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Hanging by a Thread brings together research by sociologists and historians on textile workers in the southern United States. The volume is divided into sections covering the history industrialization and labor recruitment in the industry, paternalism and worker protest, and a section analyzing contemporary problems.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- PART I. Introduction
- 1. Southern Textiles: Contested Puzzles and Continuing Paradoxes / Schulman, Michael D. / Leiter, Jiffrey
- PART II. Industrialization and Labor Recruitment
- 2. Poor Girls Who Might Otherwise Be Wretched: The Origins of Paternalism in North Carolina's Mills, 1836-1880 / Freeze, Gary R.
- 3. Technology, Gender, and Rural Culture: Normandy and the Piedmont / Gullickson, Gay L.
- 4. Determinants of Industrialization on the North American "Periphery"
- PART III. Paternalism and Worker Protest
- 5. Choosing between the Ham and the Union: Paternalism in the Cone Mills of Greensboro, 1925-1930 / Simon, Bryant
- 6. "Jesus Leads Us, Cooper Needs Us, the Union Feeds Us": The 1958 Harriet-Henderson Textile Strike / Frankel, Linda
- 7. The Brown Lung Association and Grass-Roots Organizing / Judkins, Bennett M. / Dredge, Bart
- PART IV. Contemporary Problems
- 8 Employment Patterns zn the British and U.S. Textile Industries: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Gender Changes / Penn, Roger / Leiter, Jeffrey
- 9. Robotics, Electronics, and the American Textile Industry / Bonham, Julia C.
- 10. The Deindustrialization of the Textile South: A Case Study / Gaventa, John / Smith, Barbara Ellen
- PART V. Conclusion
- 11. Facing Extinction? / Zingraff, Rhonda
- References
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-4524-7
- OCLC:
- 1125110393
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