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Paternalism and Protest: Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905
by McLaurin, Melton Alonza
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0837146623
- ISBN 13
- 9780837146621
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971. Monograph on the shift from the slave-centered plantation economy of the south to an industrial economy of textile mills staffed by poor whites, and efforts by northern urban unions to extend their reach & benefits to those mills, thwarted by the greated paternalism of southern mill owners and their threats to employ Black scabs. Publisher's Contributions in Economics and Economic History No. 3, co-published with the Negro Universities Press. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows some rubbing & edgewear, light chipping; hint of foxing & an institutional stamp to the endsheets. Text clean; xviii, 265 pages + colophon; index, bibliography, notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0203
- Title
- Paternalism and Protest: Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905
- Author
- McLaurin, Melton Alonza
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0837146623
- ISBN 13
- 9780837146621
- Publisher
- Greenwood Press
- Place of Publication
- Westport, CT
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Organized Labor, Unions, Immigration, Discrimination, Labor History, Racism
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Poor
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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