A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands in State and Nation, 1920-1945
by Simon, BryantFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-06-01
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary
Historian Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina mill hands during the first half of the 20th century. His revealing an moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power. 8 illustrations.
Author Biography
Bryant Simon is assistant professor of history at the University of Georgia.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| The Man for Office Is Cole Blease | |
| Bleasism in Decline, 1924-1930 | |
| Searching for Answers to the Great Depression | |
| We the People of the U.S.A.: New Deal Americanism on the Mill Hills | |
| Mr. Roosevelt Ain't Going to Stand for This: New Deal Battles, 1933-1934 | |
| The General Textile Strike, September 1934 | |
| The Enthronement of Textile Labor: The 1934 Governor's Race | |
| When Votes Don't Add Up: Olin D. Johnston and the Workers' Compensation Act, 1935-1937 | |
| Fighting for the Right to Strike, 1935-1936 | |
| They Don't Like Us Because We're Lintheads: The Highway Fight, 1935-1937 | |
| The Carpetbaggers Are Coming: The 1938 Senate Race | |
| The New Politics of Race, 1938-1948 | |
| Conclusion | |
| Appendix | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Illustrations A mill house in Graniteville in the mid-1930s | |
| An overview of a mill village in Newberry, ca. 1910 | |
| "The mill" in Graniteville, 1935 | |
| A lynching in the South Carolina upcountry before World War I A stump meeting in Walterboro, 1946 | |
| A Blease campaign poster, probably from 1914 | |
| National Guardsmen prying open a picket line of company loyalists in Greenville, 1934 | |
| Millhands comforting a UTW member wounded in picket-line violence, September 1934 | |
| Children playing with National Guardsmen at the Woodside Mills, Greenville, during the General Textile Strike Cartoon: "Weekly Newsmap of South Carolina," September 1934 | |
| Olin D. Johnston chatting with another politician, 1943 | |
| "Cotton Ed" Smith and wife shaking hands with voters, 1944 | |
| Maps | |
| South Carolina Counties, 1929 | |
| Textile Spindleage in South Carolina, by County, 1929 | |
| Tables | |
| Population of Spartanburg County, Selected Years, 1900-1940 | |
| Population of Mill Village in Spartanburg County, 1925 and 1937 | |
| Percentage of Vote for Coleman L. Blease versus James F. Byrnes, U.S. Senate Runoff, 1924 | |
| Percentage of Vote for Coleman L. Blease versus James F. Byrnes, U.S. Senate Runoff, 1930 | |
| Percentage of Vote for Olin D. Johnston versus Ibra C. Blackwood, Gubernatorial Runoff, 1930 | |
| Percentage of Vote for Olin D. Johnston versus Ibra C. Blackwood, Gubernatorial Runoff, 1934 | |
| Percentage of Vote for Olin D. Johnston versus Ellison D. Smith, U.S. Senate Runoff, 1938 | |
| Annual Earnings of South Carolina Textile Workers, 1909-1937 | |
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