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[-5], contents vii List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 7 one. “Positively Alarming”: Southern Boosters, Piedmont Mills, and New England Responses 21 two. “Manufacturers Surely Cannot Be Expected to Continue”: Legislation, Labor, and Depression 40 three. “A Model Manufacturing Town”: Moving to Alabama City 71 four. “Small Help”: Unionization, Capital Mobility, and Child-Labor Laws in Alabama 101 five. “A General Demoralization of Business”: The Textile Depression of the 1920s 129 six. “Dissatisfaction among Labor”: The 1934 General Strike 153 seven. “We Kept Right on Organizin’ ”: From Defeat to Victory and Back Again 177 Conclusion 183 Notes 215 Bibliography 229 Index This page intentionally left blank ...

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