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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Southern Labor"”.
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Laurel, Mississippi: A Historical Perspective.
<p>Laurel, Mississippi, exemplifies the new southern development that occurred in the years following Reconstruction. Coinciding with continental rail building and the depletion of northern timber resources, Laurel emerged as one of Mississippi's great industrial centers. Laurel's survival after …
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Perfect Harmony: the Myth of Tupelo's Industrial Tranquility
Despite a vast amount of research on Southern labor in the 1930s, historians paid little attention to Northeast Mississippi. This predominantly rural area, though, boasted some of the largest garment factories of the period. Local businessmen established a cotton mill and three clothing …
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Arkansas’s cotton plantocracy: the role of POWs in establishing postwar labor systems
… of war (POWs) to suppress the wages of local labor and set up their postwar future. This practice had lasting effects on labor in the South as POWs remained in the fields until the spring 1946, which allowed the planters to transition to Mexican migrant laborers and eventually mechanization. …
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Daughters of Ruth : enterprising black women in insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s
… peers. It complicates the narrative of black southern labor history that focuses more on women as agricultural laborers, domestics, and factory workers than as enterprising risk takers who sought to counterbalance personal ambition and self-interest with communal empowerment. Insurance …
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The Development of IAM District Lodge 776 in Fort Worth, Texas, 1942-1946: A Case Study in the Growth of Organized Labor During World War II
… Worth Machinists clearly fit into the national labor movement during the war years. Second, it argues that the existence, survival, and strength of the union depended greatly on outside forcesan expanding national economy, a powerful national union, and a generally labor-friendly government. …