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Author
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
It was called "the summer of dynamite." In 1929, on the eve of the Great Depression, the southern textile belt--from the rayon mills of upper East Tennessee to the bleacheries and weave rooms of the Carolina piedmont--exploded in a full-on civil war marked by political intrigue, kidnapping, attempted and outright murder, rioting, and the threat of armed insurrection against the state. Communists agitated in Gastonia, North Carolina; the American Federation...
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