A fabric of defeat : the politics of South Carolina millhands, 1910-1948 / Bryant Simon
- Author:
- Simon, Bryant
- Published:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1998]
- Copyright Date:
- ©1998
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- The man for office is Cole Blease -- Bleasism in decline, 1924-1930 -- Searching for answers to the Great Depression -- We the people of the U.S.A. : New Deal Americanism on the mill hills -- Mr. Roosevelt ain't going to stand for this : New Deal battles, 1933-1934 -- The general textile strike, September 1934 -- The enthronement of textile labor : the 1934 governor's race -- When votes don't add up : Olin D. Johnston and the Workers' Compensation Act, 1935-1937 -- Fighting for the right to strike, 1935-1936 -- They don't like us because we're lintheads : the highway fight, 1935-1937.
The carpetbaggers are coming : the 1938 Senate race -- The new politics of race, 1938-1948. - Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0807824011 (alk. paper)
0807847046 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography Note:
- Bibliography: pages 305-335.
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