Tangled (eBook)

Organizing the Southern Textile Industry, 1930–1934

Travis Sutton Byrd (Autor)

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2024 | 1
368 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-408-3 (ISBN)

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Labor strife in piedmont mills had left eight dead in the summer of 1929, prompting the AFLaffiliated United Textile Workers of America (UTW) to strike an uneasy deal with the North Carolina governor. Their mutual goal was to root out and destroy the efforts of a rival communist organization, the National Textile Workers Union (NTWU), and thus erase Bolshevism in Dixie. The stage was set for a new round of conflict that would unfold over the next half-decade, not only in North Carolina but in several surrounding states. In this follow-up toUnraveled,his account of the 1929 events, Travis Sutton Byrd deftly explores a complex story of labor relations, political transitions, and emergent class consciousness in the industrial South. He seeks to answer why, with the coming of the Depression and New Deal initiatives to combat it, the region proved to be such a vexing battleground for labor organizers, whether mainstream or radical. This book examines the initiation and failure of the AFL/UTW's ';Organize the South Campaign' and the attendant rise and demise of ';Coalitionism'a fusion between organized labor, progressive Republicans, and disaffected Democrats. It also documents the evolution of contradictory impulsestrade unionism and collective bargaining versus individualism and ';right-to-work' doctrineand pays special attention to the now-forgotten High Point, North Carolina, hosiery strike of 1932, which achieved its goals in remarkable fashion even though it never regularized under either the UTW or the NTWU. The story culminates in 1934, when a general strike swept the country in a desperate effort to force the reform promised by the National Recovery Act. Drawing especially on regional newspaper accounts to show how the key actors millhands, owners, organizers, and politiciansunderstood the events,Tangledis a thoroughly engrossing chronicle that carries vital lessons for today's labor leaders and policymakers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Schlagworte: AFL–affiliated unions • Bolshevism in Dixie • class consciousness • Coalitionism • collective bargaining • communist organizations • Depression-era labor struggles • disaffected Democrats • general strike of 1934 • High Point, North Carolina hosiery strike of 1932 • Individualism • labor organizers • labor policy lessons • labor relations in the South • labor strife • millhands • mill owners • National Recovery Act • National Textile Workers Union NTWU • New Deal initiatives • North Carolina Governor • Organize the South Campaign • Piedmont mills • political transitions in the industrial South • progressive Republicans • regional newspaper accounts • right-to-work doctrine • tangled • trade unionism • United Textile Workers of America UTW
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-408-3 / 1621904083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-408-3 / 9781621904083