| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 345 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover Page; A Fabric of Defeat; A Fabric of Defeat The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE The Man for Office Is Cole Blease; CHAPTER TWO Bleasism in Decline, 1924-1930; CHAPTER THREE Searching for Answers to the Great Depression; CHAPTER FOUR We the People of the U.S.A.; CHAPTER FIVE Mr. Roosevelt Ain't Going to Stand for This; CHAPTER SIX The General Textile Strike, September 1934; CHAPTER SEVEN The Enthronement of Textile Labor; CHAPTER EIGHT When Votes Don't Add Up |
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CHAPTER NINE Fighting for the Right to Strike, 1935-1936CHAPTER TEN They Don't Like Us because We're Lintheads; CHAPTER ELEVEN The Carpetbaggers are Coming; CHAPTER TWELVE The New Politics of Race, 1938-1948; CONCLUSION; Notes; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power. Taking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues--at the polling station, on front porches, and on the shop floor--and examines their political involvement at the local, state, and national levels. He describes the campaign styles and rhetoric of such politicians as Coleman Blease and Olin Johnston (himself a former millhand), who eagerly sought the workers' votes. He draws a detailed picture of mill workers casting ballots, carrying placards, marching on the state capital, writing to lawmakers, and picketing factories. These millhands' politics reflected their public and private thoughts about whiteness and blackness, war and the New Deal, democracy and justice, gender and sexuality, class relations and consumption. Ultimately, the people depicted here are neither romanticized nor dismissed as the stereotypically racist and uneducated "rednecks" found in many accounts of southern politics. Southern workers understood the political and social forces that shaped their lives, argues Simon, and they developed complex political strategies to deal with those forces. publisher |
| Related To |
Chapter 1 first appeared, in a somewhat different form, as "The Appeal of Cole Blease of South Carolina: Race, Class, and Sex in the New South," Journal of Southern History 62 (February 1996): 57-86. It is reprinted here by permission of the publisher |
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Journal of southern history v.62 (Feburary 1996), pages 57-86 0022-4642 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-335) and index |
| Notes |
Bryant Simon is assistant professor of history at the University of Georgia |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 1, 2021) |
| Subject |
Textile workers -- Political activity -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century
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Cotton textile industry -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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Cotton textile industry
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Politics and government
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Textile workers -- Political activity
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Katoenindustrie.
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Arbeidersbeweging.
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Politieke activiteit.
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| SUBJECT |
South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125570
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United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
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South Carolina
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807864494 |
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0807864498 |
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