{"product_id":"southern-workers-and-the-search-for-community-spartanburg-county-south-carolina-paperback-softback-9780252069017","title":"Southern Workers and the Search for Community; Spartanburg County, South Carolina (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252069017","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSouthern Workers and the Search for Community\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpartanburg County, South Carolina\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eG C. Waldrep (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252069017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 August 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRichard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, 2000.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A welcome contribution to the literature on southern working-class culture. Concentrating on the informal structures of textile workers' lives in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, in the 1930s, G. C. Waldrep III seeks a language for the 'private transcript' of their history. He employs such official documentation as newspapers, government records, and union archives but relies most heavily on workers' oral histories.\"--John Hennen, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"Using company records, federal and state reports, newspapers, and a rich collection of oral histories, Waldrep gives readers insight into a significant aspect of southern cultures and economic development.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \"One of the book's strengths is its use of oral history. . . . Another is [Waldrep's] use of the workers' letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In this, he brings the anguish of a number of heretofore invisible individuals to light.\"--R. Phillip Stone, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpartanburg County, South Carolina, offered an example of the enduring legacy of the southern textile industry, company-owned mill villages, and union struggles of the 1930s. G. C. Waldrep illuminates the complex meshing of community ties and traditions with the goals and ideals of unionism. Unions aligned with a social vision of mutuality, equality, and interdependency already established in mill villages. But because companies owned the villages, labor conflicts involved not only work issues like wages and hours but virtually every other aspect of life. In documenting the high stakes of labor protest, Waldrep shows how the erosion or outright destruction of community undermined the ability of workers to respond to the assaults of employers overwhelmingly supported by government agencies and agents. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and persuasively argued, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Workers and the Search for Community\u003c\/i\u003e opens the gates of southern company towns to illuminate the human issues behind the mechanics of labor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523431526680,"sku":"9780252069017","price":16.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/southern-workers-and-the-search-for-community-spartanburg-county-south-carolina-paperback-softback-9780252069017","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}