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A Common Thread : Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820336695
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Common ThreadDDC classification:
  • 338.7/677210973
LOC classification:
  • HD9879.D95E54 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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