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Mill Family
The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915
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The growing cotton textile industry of the postbellum South required a stable and reliable work force made up of laborers with varied skills. At the same time, Southern agriculture was in a depressed state. Families, especially those with many children, were therefore forced to look for work
in the textile mills. Mill managers, in their own interest, created the basis for a distinctive social and economic structure: the Southern cotton mill village. These villages, which included such accoutrements as good schools for the children, were paternalistic work environments designed to
attract this desirable source of workers. This book examines the role of the family labor system in the early evolution of the postbellum Southern cotton textile industry, revealing how the mill village served as a focal point of economic and social cohesion as well as an institution for
socializing and stabilizing its workers. The paternalism of the mill villages was not merely an instrument of capitalistic indoctrination, contends McHugh, but was shaped by market forces. McHugh employs a valuable body of archival material from the Alamance Mill, an important cotton textile mill
in North Carolina, to illustrate her arguments.
Subject categories
- Academic > Economics > Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class > By industry or trade
- Academic > Economics > Industries. Land use. Labor > Economic growth, development, planning
- Academic > Economics > Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class
- Academic > Economics > Industries. Land use. Labor
- Academic > Economics
- Academic > Social Sciences
- History > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- Business > Industries
- Business
- History
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9780195364637
9780195042993
0195364635