Southern workers and the search for community : Spartanburg County, South Carolina
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Southern workers and the search for community : Spartanburg County, South Carolina
（The working class in American history）
University of Illinois Press, c2000
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and index
収録内容
- Shared lives : the textile communities of Spartanburg County, South Carolina
- Hope rising : the National Recovery Act and textile unionism in Spartanburg County
- "It's now or never" : the general textile strike of 1934, part 1
- "Getting our throats cut" : the general textile strike of 1934, part 2
- Dealt out : Spartanburg workers and the Roosevelt Administration, 1934-39
- Southern textile unionism and the 1930s : meaning and memory
- The politics of survival
- Last stand : the Clifton Strike of 1949-50
- Hope, fear, and the risks of public life
内容説明・目次
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: cloth ISBN 9780252025877
内容説明
"Southern Workers and the Search for Community" is the first major effort to interpret the enduring legacy of the southern textile industry, company-owned mill villages, and the union struggles of the 1930s. Focusing on Spartanburg County, South Carolina, G. C. Waldrep offers an eloquent study of the hopes and fears that define patterns of labor activism. Revealing a complex meshing of community ties and traditions with the goals and ideals of unionism, Waldrep shows how unions fed into a social vision of mutuality, equality, and interdependency already established in mill villages. This powerful sense of community, however, ultimately rested on sand. Because the villages themselves were the property of management, any labor conflict involved not only issues of wages, hours, and working conditions inside the mill but also virtually every other aspect of life. Most important, the mill owners held the trump card of eviction. Waldrep looks beyond official versions of union activity in Spartanburg County to explain the episodic and apparently erratic eruptions of labor tensions and intervening periods of calm.
Drawing on private records of textile workers, their employers, and their unions during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as more than a hundred oral interviews with workers, Waldrep reinterprets the periods of "quiescence" that have long puzzled historians. Documenting the high stakes of labor protest in mill villages, Waldrep shows how the erosion or outright destruction of community systematically undermined the ability of workers to respond to the assaults of employers overwhelmingly supported by government agencies and agents. Beautifully written and persuasively argued, "Southern Workers and the Search for Community" opens the gates of southern company towns to illuminate the human issues behind the mechanics of labor.
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: pbk ISBN 9780252069017
内容説明
Spartanburg County, South Carolina, offered an example of the enduring legacy of the southern textile industry, company-owned mill villages, and union struggles of the 1930s. G. C. Waldrep illuminates the complex meshing of community ties and traditions with the goals and ideals of unionism. Unions aligned with a social vision of mutuality, equality, and interdependency already established in mill villages. But because companies owned the villages, labor conflicts involved not only work issues like wages and hours but virtually every other aspect of life. In documenting the high stakes of labor protest, Waldrep shows how the erosion or outright destruction of community undermined the ability of workers to respond to the assaults of employers overwhelmingly supported by government agencies and agents.
Beautifully written and persuasively argued, Southern Workers and the Search for Community opens the gates of southern company towns to illuminate the human issues behind the mechanics of labor.
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