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Author Haberland, Michelle

Title Striking beauties : women apparel workers in the u.s. south, 1930-2000 / Michelle Haberland
Edition 1st edition
Published Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2015

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Contents The place of apparel in the history of southern industrialization -- There wasn't any jobs for women -- When you cease to be ladies, we will arrest you -- Rough women -- When the government required you to hire them -- Look for the union label -- Sweatshops in the sun -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Apparrel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking Beauties, Michelle Haberland examines its essential features and the varied experiences of its workers during the industry's great expansion from the late 1930s through the demise of its southern branch of the twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Labor -- Southern States -- History
Clothing and dress -- Southern States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Clothing and dress
Labor
Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820347547
082034754X
1322889015
9781322889016