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Like a family : the making of a Southern cotton mill world / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, Christopher B. Daly ; with a new afterword by the authors ; foreword by Michael Frisch. - 1 online resource (xxix, 500 pages) : illustrations, maps - The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies . - Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies. .

Prevous edition published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Everything we had -- Public work -- From the cradle to the grave -- Hard rules -- Turn your radio on -- A multitude of sins.

A classic study of labor history in the textile industry of the South during the 1920s and 30s. The authors drew from extensive interviews, letters, and newspaper articles to reconstruct the lives and struggles of factory workers and their families. This edition includes a new prologue and epilogue.


English.

ISBN: 9780807882948 (electronic bk.) 0807882941 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Source: 09CE4E55-EE2E-4612-9335-4FF4E0213134 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

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Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 012657902 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cotton trade--Employees--History.--Southern States
Textile factories--History.--Southern States
Cotton trade--History.--Southern States
Coton--Industrie--Personnel--Histoire.--États-Unis (Sud)
Cotton trade.
Cotton trade--Employees.
Social conditions
Textile factories.
Baumwollindustrie
Geschichte
Katoenindustrie.
Sociale aspecten.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Southern States--Social conditions.
États-Unis (Sud)--Conditions sociales.
Southern States.
USA--Südstaaten

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Baumwollarbeiter.

LC Class. No.: HD9077.A13 / L55 2000eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.9/677