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Labor Strikes in the Columbus Textile Mills During the Summer of 1934
<p>One major and three minor textile strikes occurred in Columbus, Georgia, during the summer of 1934. Each minor strike centered around issues at separate mills -- the Muscogee Manufacturing Company, the Georgia Webbing and Tape Company, and the Eagle and Phenix Mills. On September 1, a …
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Last breath, first pulse: an experiment in modernization, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1823 - 1857
… Company commenced operations, the first of many textile mills constructed and operated by the Boston Company (colloquially referred to as the Boston Associates). The burgeoning mill complex, the first large-scale industrial development in the United States was incorporated as the town of Lowell …
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"Daughters of freemen still": female textile operatives and the changing face of Lowell, 1820-1850
… the female labor force of the Lowell textile mills from 1820 to 1850. First, it describes the development of the Lowell system and the philosophy on which it was founded. Next, it examines the working conditions in the mills and the daily lives of the women who worked in them. Finally, …
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Fashion, Class, and Labor: Clothing in American Women's Fiction, 1840-1913
… factory operatives in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills wrote and published The Lowell Offering in order to assert their own respectability. They define the operative in contrast to the fashionable ""lady do-nothing"" and reinforce the connection between dress and the labor that goes into …
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Las Familias De Los Pioneros: Identity of Greenville, South Carolina's First Colombian Immigrants and Their Children
… recruited from 1968-1975 to work in the town's textile mills. Over 10,000 live in Greenville today. The early community was close-knit and was able to preserve aspects of Colombian culture, such as the Spanish language and Colombian Catholic religion, for the second generation. As the community …
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An Uncomfortable Memorialization: Remembering Textile Industrialization in the South
… from the architectural realm of an isolated textile mill building to the scale of the landscape encompassing the entire infrastructure of mill life. The beginning of the 20th century witnessed the transformation of the piedmont region of South Carolina from a farmland of sharecroppers to the …
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The Limits of Good Intentions: A Historical Analysis of Pioneering Progressive Educators In Upstate South Carolina (1910-1920)
… of South Carolina found itself in the midst of a textile boom. As families migrated from the mountains and failing farms to find employment in one of the many textile mills, relations re-established roots within the confines of the company-owned mill village. Paternalism, the absence of child …