Description Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history.
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 About the Author Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is professor of history and director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill..
Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people.
A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel"Here is labor history in intensely human terms.
It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. "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.
Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social 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.
Description Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history
