Hanging by a Thread : Social Change in Southern Textiles

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 Orig...
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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 Ausführliche Beschreibung