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Southern Workers and the Search for Community
Spartanburg County, South Carolina
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University of Illinois Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: X9NQN5R
EAN: 9780252069017
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Zustellung: Fr, 21.08.2026
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- G C. Waldrep
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2000
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 296