Uses interviews, letters, and excerpts from the trade press to depict life in a Southern cotton mill village (view table of contents)

Product Description: Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)