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What do we need a union for? : the TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 / by Minchin, Timothy J.(CARDINAL)211094;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index.1460L
Subjects: Textile Workers Union of America; Textile workers; Textile workers;
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The unionization of Erwin's Mill : a history of TWUA Local 250, in Erwin, North Carolina : 1938-1952 / by Carver, Mark Dean.;
Bibliography: pages 73-75.
Subjects: Textile Workers Union of America; Erwin Cotton Mills Company (Erwin, N.C.); Textile workers; Cotton textile industry;
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The voice of southern labor : radio, music, and textile strikes, 1929-1934 / by Roscigno, Vincent J.(CARDINAL)302699; Danaher, William F.(CARDINAL)301817;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-172) and index.The world of the southern cotton mill -- Radio in the textile South -- The people's president -- The musicians -- Music and the mill experience -- Mill-worker consciousness, music, and the birth of revolt -- The general textile strike of 1934 -- Conclusion.Annotation
Subjects: Textile Workers Union of America; Textile workers; Radio broadcasting; Music; Strikes and lockouts;
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Like night & day : unionization in a southern mill town/ by Clark, Daniel J.(CARDINAL)210888;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-252) and index.1560L
Subjects: Textile Workers Union of America; Harriet Cotton Mills (Henderson, N.C.); Henderson Cotton Mills (Henderson, N.C.); Textile workers; Strikes and lockouts; Textile workers; Cotton textile industry; North Caroliniana.;
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The last ballad [large print] / by Cash, Wiley,author.(CARDINAL)346845;
Includes bibliographical references.Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America--and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Working mothers; Textile workers; Textile workers; Labor union members;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14
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The last ballad [sound recording] : a novel / by Cash, Wiley,author.(CARDINAL)346845; White, Karen(Karen Elizabeth),narrator.(CARDINAL)824873; Wiley, Elizabeth,1962 April 21-narrator.;
Read by Karen White and Elizabeth Wiley.Intertwining myriad voices, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth century America, and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers. Lyrical, heartbreaking, and haunting, this eloquent novel confirms Wiley Cash's place among the nation's finest writers.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Labor union members; Textile workers; Textile workers; Working mothers;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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The last ballad [sound recording]: a novel / by Cash, Wiley,author.(CARDINAL)346845; White, Karen,(Karen Elizabeth)narrator.(CARDINAL)824873; Wiley, Elizabeth,1962 April 21-narrator.;
Performed by Karen White and Elizabeth Wiley.When the union leaflets first come through the mill, Ella May has a taste of hope. But the mill owners claim the union is nothing but a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe. To maintain their control, the owners will use every means in their power. Inspired by actual events, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America.System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Working mothers; Textile workers; Textile workers; Labor union members; Labor unions; Textile workers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The last ballad [sound recording] : a novel / by Cash, Wiley,author.(CARDINAL)346845; White, Karen(Karen Elizabeth),narrator.(CARDINAL)824873; Wiley, Elizabeth,1962 April 21-narrator.;
Performed by Karen White and Elizabeth Wiley.When the union leaflets first come through the mill, Ella May has a taste of hope. But the mill owners claim the union is nothing but a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe. To maintain their control, the owners will use every means in their power. Inspired by actual events, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Textile workers; Labor unions;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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The last ballad [kit] by Cash, Wiley,author.(CARDINAL)346845;
Includes bibliographical references.Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America--and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Labor union members; Textile workers; Textile workers; Working mothers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Life and labor in the new New South / by Zieger, Robert H.(CARDINAL)168811;
Includes bibliographical references and index."How can Greenville get new industry to come here if we get the label of a C.I.O. town?": capital migration and the limits of unionism in the postwar south / Tami J. Friedman -- John McClellan, the teamsters, and biracial labor politics in Arkansas, 1947-1959 / Michael Pierce -- "A lot closer to what it ought to be": black women and public-sector employment in Baltimore, 1950-1975 / Jane Berger -- Worker-citizens at the community bargaining table: the St. Louis teamster's community stewards program in the 1950s / Robert Bussel -- Chicano labor and multi-racial politics in post-WWII Texas: two case studies / Max Krochmal -- "Slaves of the state" revolt: Southern prison labor and prison made civil rights movement, 1945-1980 / Robert T. Chase -- Obreros in the peach state: the growth of Georgia's working-class Mexican immigrant communities from a transnational perspective / Michael K. Bess -- Race and labor in Memphis since the King assassination / Michael K. Honey and David H. Ciscel -- Shutdowns in the sun-belt: the decline of textile and apparel industry and deindustrialization in the South / Timothy J. Minchin -- A different kind of union: SEIU healthcare Florida from the Mid-1990s through 2009 / Bruce Nissen -- The movement for economic democracy in the South: the Virginia organizing project,1995-2004 / Michael Dennis.
Subjects: Labor; Labor movement;
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