Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
(Part of the Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies Series)
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Book Overview
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.
"The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family -- particularly women -- into the history of the cotton-mill world." -- Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review
"Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse." -- Studs Terkel
"Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying." -- CHOICE
"The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family -- particularly women -- into the history of the cotton-mill world." -- Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review
"Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse." -- Studs Terkel
"Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying." -- CHOICE
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807848794
ISBN13:9780807848791
Release Date:August 2000
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:544 Pages
Weight:1.69 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Oral History at Its Best
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
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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