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Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

This site covers the making and unmaking of the mill village system for textile manufacturing in the Piedmont region of the U.S. South between 1880 and 1934. It includes oral history resources, images, and text based upon the 1987 book of the same name. The web site covers the following topics: life on the land, mill village and factory, work and protest.... Show More

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