| Southern Workers and the Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina Contributor(s): Waldrep, G. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252069013 ISBN-13: 9780252069017 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $23.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 331.767 |
| LCCN: 99050611 |
| Series: Working Class in American History (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.98" W x 8.92" (1.05 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1930's - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |