Hanging by a Thread
Social Change in Southern Textiles
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2019
256 pages
978-1-5017-4524-9 (ISBN)
Description
Hanging by a Thread brings together research by sociologists and historians on textile workers in the southern United States. The volume is divided into sections covering the history industrialization and labor recruitment in the industry, paternalism and worker protest, and a section analyzing contemporary problems. -- Cornell University Press
Reviews / Votes
"Through its interdisciplinary approach, Hanging by a Thread twines sophisticated theoretical analysis with detailed historical investigation to ground the contemporary problems facing textile workers and industrialists in their historical roots.... Far more than many collections of articles, [it] is an integrated text, drawn together by thoughtful introductory and concluding essays and by the fact that so much of each author's work is informed by the considerable body of scholarship generated on this topic." * The Journal of American History * "Phillip Wood's comparison of the industry in the southern United States with that in Maritime Canada is especially valuable, as is Gay Gullickson's comparison of the mill villages in the South with the proto-industrial villages of nineteenth-century Normandy." * Business History Review * "This book is particularly valuable for the manner in which familiar themes, notably paternalism and docility, are discussed by various authors using creative interdisciplinary and comparative approaches." * The Journal of Southern History *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-4524-9 (9781501745249)
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Additional editions
Jeffrey Leiter | Michael D. Schulman | Rhonda Zingraff
Hanging by a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles
Book
02/1991
Cornell University Press
€73.86
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Persons
Jeffrey Leiter is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Michael Schulman is Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. Rhonda Zingraff is Associate Professor and Director of Sociology at Meredith college, Raleigh, North Carolina. -- Cornell University Press
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- TABLES AND FIGURES
- PREFACE
- PART I: INTRODUCTION
- 1 Southern Textiles: Contested Puzzles and Continuing Paradoxes
- 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
- 3 Technology, Gender, and Rural Culture: Normandy and the Piedmont
- 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
- 6 "Jesus Leads Us, Cooper Needs Us, the Union Feeds Us": The 1958 Harriet-Henderson Textile Strike
- 7 The Brown Lung Association and Grass-Roots Organizing
- PART IV: CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS
- 8 Employment Patterns in the British and U.S. Textile Industries: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Gender Changes
- 9 Robotics, Electronics, and the American Textile Industry
- 10 The Deindustrialization of the Textile South: A Case Study
- PART V: CONCLUSION
- 11 Facing Extinction?
- REFERENCES
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
