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A Fabric of Defeat - The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948 (Paperback, New edition)
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A Fabric of Defeat - The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948 (Paperback, New edition)
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In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white
South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth
century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group
of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and
public power. Taking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at
laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues--at
the polling station, on front porches, and on the shop floor--and
examines their political involvement at the local, state, and
national levels. He describes the campaign styles and rhetoric of
such politicians as Coleman Blease and Olin Johnston (himself a
former millhand), who eagerly sought the workers' votes. He draws a
detailed picture of mill workers casting ballots, carrying
placards, marching on the state capital, writing to lawmakers, and
picketing factories. These millhands' politics reflected their
public and private thoughts about whiteness and blackness, war and
the New Deal, democracy and justice, gender and sexuality, class
relations and consumption. Ultimately, the people depicted here are
neither romanticized nor dismissed as the stereotypically racist
and uneducated ""rednecks"" found in many accounts of southern
politics. Southern workers understood the political and social
forces that shaped their lives, argues Simon, and they developed
complex political strategies to deal with those forces. |Brings to
life the politics of white South Carolina millhands from 1920 to
1945. Examines laborers as they engaged in political activity and
shows how their politics reflected their public and private
opinions.
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