TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simon,Bryant
TI  - A fabric of defeat: the politics of South Carolina millhands, 1910-1948 
SN  - 0807864498
AV  - HD8039.T42 U6682 1998eb
U1  - 305.9/677/09757 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Textile workers
KW  - Political activity
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cotton textile industry
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Katoenindustrie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Arbeidersbeweging
KW  - Politieke activiteit
KW  - 1865-1950
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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