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by: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, and Christopher B. Daly Lu Ann Jones
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.9677
EAN: 9780807848791
ISBN: 0807848794
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: August 14, 2000
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: July 26, 2000
Sales Rank: 542458
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history.
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Rating:  - Captures a lost era
Like a Family interestingly and accurately portrays life in southern cotton mills and mill towns in the central southeast, primarily North Carolina. The book examines family, work and community life; it is a social, cultural and political history. Working in the mills was harsh, dangerous and monotonous. Most employees left farms and a rural way of life to toil in the mills; for these people living under the constant eye of mill management was humiliating at times. The mills controlled not only ... Read More
Rating:  - Oral History at Its Best
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and the other writers of _Like a Family_ created a tour-de-force study of cotton mill towns in the American South. It is a very rare book that captures such a clear, complex sense of history; Hall balances a careful sense of detail with a sweeping picture of life in the cotton-mill South by using a combination of oral and written sources. This book is perfect for scholars and non-scholars alike, and richly conjures a full picture of this period in American history.
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