Amazon.com description: Product Description: Eleven research articles about the Southern United States textile industry. The book provides an overview of the historical development of the Southern textile industry with specific essays on unionization in the 1920s and 50s and the incorporation of the Brown Lung Assn. in the 1970s. The book explores several socio-cultural themes: a) the changing significance of women, as workers, strikers and community members b) labor force integration and c) labor-capital struggles.