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A Fabric of Defeat : The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948
author
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Simon, Bryant.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807824011
print isbn13
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9780807824016
ebook isbn13
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9780807864494
language
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English
subject
Textile workers--South Carolina--Political activity--History--20th century, Cotton textile industry--South Carolina--History--20th century, South Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950, United States--Politics and government--20th century.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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HD8039.T42U6682 1998eb
ddc
:
305.9/677/09757
subject
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Textile workers--South Carolina--Political activity--History--20th century, Cotton textile industry--South Carolina--History--20th century, South Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950, United States--Politics and government--20th century.
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A Fabric of Defeat
The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948
Bryant Simon
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1998 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Simon, Bryant. A fabric of defeat: the politics of South Carolina millhands, 1910-1948 / Bryant Simon. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2401-1 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-8078-4704-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Textile workersSouth CarolinaPolitical activityHistory 20th century. 2. Cotton textile industrySouth Carolina History20th century. 3. South CarolinaPolitics and government1865-1950. 4. United StatesPolitics and government20th century. HD8039.T42U6682 1998 97-30011 305.9'677'09757dc21 CIP
Chapter 1 first appeared, in a somewhat different form, as "The Appeal of Cole Blease of South Carolina: Race, Class, and Sex in the New South," Journal of Southern History 62 (February 1996): 57-86. It is reprinted here by permission of the publisher.
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FOR MY PARENTS, Susan and Roberts Simon
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
Chapter One The Man for Office Is Cole Blease
11
Chapter Two Bleasism in Decline, 1924-1930
36
Chapter Three Searching for Answers to the Great Depression
59
Chapter Four We the People of the U.S.A.: New Deal Americanism on the Mill Hills
79
Chapter Five Mr. Roosevelt Ain't Going to Stand for This: New Deal Battles, 1933-1934
90
Chapter Six The General Textile Strike, September 1934
109
Chapter Seven The Enthronement of Textile Labor: The 1934 Governor's Race
123
Chapter Eight When Votes Don't Add Up: Olin D. Johnston and the Workers' Compensation Act, 1935-1937
137
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Chapter Nine Fighting for the Right to Strike, 1935-1936
151
Chapter Ten They Don't Like Us because We're Lintheads: The Highway Fight, 1935-1937
167
Chapter Eleven The Carpetbaggers Are Coming: The 1938 Senate Race
188
Chapter Twelve The New Politics of Race, 1938-1948
219
Conclusion
237
Appendix
241
Notes
247
Bibliography
305
Index
337
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Illustrations
A mill house in Graniteville in the mid-1930s
2
An overview of a mill village in Newberry, ca. 1910
3
"The mill" in Graniteville, 1935
4
A lynching in the South Carolina upcountry before World War I
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