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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on Sources | |
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| Cotton Mill People | |
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| Everything We Had | |
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| Public Work | |
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| From the Cradle to the Grave | |
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| Air and Promises | |
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| Hard Rules | |
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| Turn Your Radio On | |
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| A Multitude of Sins | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index Maps | |
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| Textile Spindleage in the Southeast, 1929 | |
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| Counties of the Southeast, 1929 | |
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| Rivers and Railroads of the Southeast, 1930 | |
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| Selected Mill Towns of the Carolinas, 1930 | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| A North Carolina mountain farm Men gathered for wheat threshing | |
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| Advertisement for Altamahaw Plaids Officers and superintendents of the Cone family's | |
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| Proximity and White Oak plants | |
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| The Gaffney Manufacturing Company Workers at the Franklinville Manufacturing | |
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| Company Doffers at the Bibb Mill No. 1 | |
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| Learning to spin Men opening bales of cotton at the White Oak Mill | |
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| Card room hands at the Franklinville Manufacturing Company | |
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| Men and women weaving at the White Oak Mill Women drawing in at the White Oak Mill | |
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| The card room at the White Oak Mill | |
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| Swimming in the whirlpool on the Deep River Girls enjoy a break from work | |
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| The superintendent's house at the Franklinville Manufacturing | |
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| Company D. A. Tompkin's plan for a four-room mill house | |
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| Children six to eight years old in the school at the Lynchburg Cotton Mills | |
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| Welfare worker conducting a domestic science class at Proximity Mills | |
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| The mill baseball team at Bynum, North Carolina | |
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| Children participating in organized recreation at the Franklinville Manufacturing | |
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| Company Raising chickens Caring for livestock Advertisement for labor-saving machinery | |
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| Advertisement for Veeder-Root pick counters | |
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| Advertisement for high-speed machinery Ella May Wiggins | |
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| Flossie Cole Grindstaff Lawrence Hogan | |
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| The Piedmont Heights mill complex and village James | |
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| Spencer Love James Lee Love with Cornelia and Spencer | |
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| The Hagenback and Wallace Show | |
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| The Swingbillies Preacher George Washington | |
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| Swinney Glen Hope Baptist Church | |
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| The Blue Eagle Francis Gorman George Sloan | |
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| Union memebers marching down the main street of Gastonia, North Carolina | |
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| National Guardsmen rounding up strikers in Newman, Gerogia | |
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| Dancing pickets outside the Clark Thread Mill | |
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| Striking workers fresh from a confontation with police outside the Trion Cotton Mill | |
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| Lacy Wright Icy Norman "Performing Like a Family" performance ensemble, production staff, and co-author Robert Korstad | |