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A fabric of defeat : the politics of South Carolina millhands, 1910-1948 / Bryant Simon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 345 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807864498
  • 9780807864494
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fabric of defeat.DDC classification:
  • 305.9/677/09757 21
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.T42 U6682 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Online resources:
Contents:
The man for office is Cole Blease -- Bleasism in decline, 1924-1930 -- Searching for answers to the Great Depression -- We the people of the U.S.A. : new Deal Americanism on the mill hills -- Mr. Roosevelt ain't going to stand for this : New Deal battles, 1933-1934 -- The general textile strike, September 1934 -- The enthronement of textile labor : the 1934 governor's race -- When votes don't add up : Olin D. Johnston and the Workers' Compensation Act, 1935-1937 -- Fighting for the right to strike, 1935-1936 -- They don't like us because we're lintheads : the highway fight, 1935-1937 --The carpetbaggers are coming : the 1938 Senate race -- The new politics of race, 1938-1948.
Summary: In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power. Taking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues--at the polling station, on front porches, and on the shop floor--and examines their political involvement at the local, state, and national levels. He describes the campaign styles and rhetoric of s.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-335) and index.

The man for office is Cole Blease -- Bleasism in decline, 1924-1930 -- Searching for answers to the Great Depression -- We the people of the U.S.A. : new Deal Americanism on the mill hills -- Mr. Roosevelt ain't going to stand for this : New Deal battles, 1933-1934 -- The general textile strike, September 1934 -- The enthronement of textile labor : the 1934 governor's race -- When votes don't add up : Olin D. Johnston and the Workers' Compensation Act, 1935-1937 -- Fighting for the right to strike, 1935-1936 -- They don't like us because we're lintheads : the highway fight, 1935-1937 --The carpetbaggers are coming : the 1938 Senate race -- The new politics of race, 1938-1948.

Print version record.

In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power. Taking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues--at the polling station, on front porches, and on the shop floor--and examines their political involvement at the local, state, and national levels. He describes the campaign styles and rhetoric of s.

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