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Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915 - Couverture rigide

McHugh, Cathy L.

 
9780195042993: Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195042999 ISBN 13 : 9780195042993
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1988

Synopsis

This book examines the role of the family labour system in the early evolution of the post-bellum Southern cotton textile industry. The growing textile industry required workers with varied skills and a stable and reliable work force. At the same time, Southern agriculture was in a depressed state and families, especially those with many children, were forced into looking for work in the textile mills. The mills, in their own interest, created a paternalistic work environment, including good schools for the children, to attract this desirable source of workers. This paternalism was central to solving the industry's labour needs, but it was a paternalism shaped by market forces and not merely as an instrument of capitalist indoctrination.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book examines the role of the family labour system in the early evolution of the post-bellum Southern cotton textile industry. The growing textile industry required workers with varied skills and a stable and reliable work force. At the same time, Southern agriculture was in a depressed state and families, especially those with many children, were forced into looking for work in the textile mills. The mills, in their own interest, created a paternalistic work environment, including good schools for the children, to attract this desirable source of workers. This paternalism was central to solving the industry's labour needs, but it was a paternalism shaped by market forces and not merely as an instrument of capitalist indoctrination.

Revue de presse

Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and historical work, notably on human capital and family economy, McHugh's brief, tightly argued book shows how an apparent new departure, the coming of industry to the South, utilized the values and institutions of traditional southern white culture to create a stable, disciplined work force. (Business History Review)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195042999
ISBN 13 
9780195042993
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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