A New Class of Labor in the South
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A 1901 magazine article on the rise of the Southern cotton-mill workforce and the child-labor laws then pending in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Mississippi. The author traces how white tenant farmers and hill people entered the mills after cotton prices collapsed, and reports mill managers' views, wages and family earnings. She also covers worker attitudes, illiteracy, and the schools, churches and village amenities some mills provided.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1901
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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