Hanging by a thread : social change in southern textiles

Name/Title

Hanging by a thread : social change in southern textiles

Entry/Object ID

TS1323.5.U64

Description

Contents : Southern textiles : contested puzzles and continuing paradoxes / Michael D. Schulman and Jeffrey Leiter -- Poor girls who might otherwise be wretched : the origins of paternalism in North Carolina's mills, 1836-1880 / Gary R. Freeze -- Technology, gender, and rural culture : Normandy and the Piedmont / Gay L. Gullickson -- Determinants of industrialization on the North American "periphery" / Phillip J. Wood -- Choosing between the ham and the union : paternalism in the Cone Mills of Greensboro, 1925-1930 / Bryant Simon -- "Jesus leads us, Cooper needs us, the union feeds us" : the 1958 Harriet-Henderson textile strike / Linda Frankel -- The Brown Lung Association and grass-roots organizing / Bennett M. Judkins and Bart Dredge -- Employment patterns in the British and U.S. textile industries : a comparative analysis of recent gender changes / Roger Penn and Jeffrey Leiter -- Robotics, electronics, and the American textile industry / Julia C. Bonham -- The deindustrialization of the textile South : a case study / John Gaventa and Barbara Ellen Smith -- Facing extinction? / Rhonda Zingraff.

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Search Terms

cotton textile industry, cotton textiles, southern states, textile industry--history

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Book Details

Author

Jeffrey Leiter, Michael D. Schulman, Rhonda Zingraff

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Date Published

1991

Call No.

TS1323.5.U64

ISBN

875461743, 9780875461748

Notes

Length: 248