TY  - BOOK
AU  - English,Beth
TI  - A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry
SN  - 9780820336695
AV  - HD9879.D95E54 2006 
U1  - 338.7/677210973 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Dwight Manufacturing Company-History
KW  - Cotton textile industry-Location-Alabama-History
KW  - Cotton textile industry-Massachusetts-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. "Positively Alarming": Southern Boosters, Piedmont Mills, and New England Responses -- TWO. "Manufacturers Surely Cannot Be Expected to Continue": Legislation, Labor, and Depression -- THREE. "A Model Manufacturing Town": Moving to Alabama City -- FOUR. "Small Help": Unionization, Capital Mobility, and Child-Labor Laws in Alabama -- FIVE. "A General Demoralization of Business": The Textile Depression of the 1920s -- SIX. "Dissatisfaction among Labor": The 1934 General Strike -- SEVEN. "We Kept Right on Organizin' ": From Defeat to Victory and Back Again -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
N2  - Examines the relocation of the New England textile industry to the piedmont South between 1880 and 1959, through the example of the Massachusetts-based Dwight Manufacturing Company. Provides an informative historic reference point to current debates about the continuous relocation of capital to low-wage, largely unregulated labor markets worldwide
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ER  -