Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

by Robert Korstad and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Book Overview

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848794
• ISBN13: 9780807848791
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Oral History at Its Best

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and the other writers of _Like a Family_ created a tour-de-force study of cotton mill towns in the American South. It is a very rare book that captures such a clear, complex sense of history; Hall balances a careful sense of detail with a sweeping picture of life in the cotton-mill South by using a combination of oral and written sources. This book is perfect for scholars and non-scholars alike, and richly conjures a full picture of this period in American history.