Like Night and Day
Unionization in a Southern Mill Town
Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Specifically, Clark points to the importance members placed on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have seen as impediments rather than improvements. From the signing of contracts in 1943 until a devastating strike fifteen years later, the union…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-4617-9
- EAN: 9780807846179
- Produktnummer: 1463609
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 274 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 446 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 446
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