Textile—Where the Fabric Meets the Road
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The Road
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Chapter 6 looks at the textile industry, the largest industry in the United States during the 1930s to 1950s, which failed to be organized in the South. The chapter takes aim at the highly popular cultural analysis that argues for the impact of southern culture as the reason for this failure. It emphasizes the economics of the industry, the historic militancy of southern textile workers, like that of their counterparts the world over, and the similarities of their struggles to those of other textile workers throughout the world with decidedly different cultures. For many analysts of U.S. labor, the question of why unions have been less successful in the South than in other regions revolves almost completely around the textile industry.
1997 ◽
Vol 24
(1)
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pp. 117-141
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2021 ◽
Vol 18
(14)
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pp. 7491
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2021 ◽
pp. 127-132
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