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Southern Workers & Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina (The Working Class in American History, 2) - Softcover

Waldrep, G. C.

 
9780252069017: Southern Workers & Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina (The Working Class in American History, 2)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252069013 ISBN 13: 9780252069017
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2000

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

G. C. Waldrep III is a professor of English at Bucknell University and an award-winning poet.

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An eloquent study of the hopes and fears that define patterns of labor activism, 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. G. C. Waldrep opens the gates of southern company towns to show 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.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252069013
ISBN 13 
9780252069017
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
296
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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