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organizing the southern textile industry, 1930-1934
xii, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
In Travis Sutton Byrd's second exploration of the North Carolina textile industry, he probes more broadly the 1929 labor strikes and connects them with the events of 1934 and a larger, economically depressed North Carolina over a five year period. Byrd contends that the five years of labor strife discussed in this study broadly represent the death of the New South resurgence in North Carolina as a myriad of small, industrial towns throughout the mountain and Piedmont region felt the weight of the Great Depression.
Introduction: maps and legends, history and historiography -- 1930-1931 -- To organize the South -- Coalitionism, communism, and the politics of labor -- A long season for malcontents -- Greensboro and Bessemer City -- Riding that Danville train -- Many unhappy returns -- 1932 -- "Southern labor stirs" -- "Calibre tests" -- 1934 -- Infamous eagle -- "The pit and the pendulum, 1934" -- Denouement -- All the tangled threads, 1934-1939 -- Postscript: where do we go from there?
Includes bibliographical references and index.