Like Night and Day: Unionization in a Southern Mill Town Contributor(s): Clark, Daniel J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807846171 ISBN-13: 9780807846179 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $40.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, this book shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Specifically, Clark points to the importance members placed on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have previously seen as impediments rather than improvements. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science |
Dewey: 331.881 |
LCCN: 96-7730 |
Lexile Measure: 1560 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.17" W x 9.21" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Specifically, Clark points to the importance members placed on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have seen as impediments rather than improvements.
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Contributor Bio(s): Clark, Daniel J.: - Daniel J. Clark is assistant professor of history at Oakland University in Michigan. |