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L I KE A F A M I LY THE FRED W. MORRISON SERIES IN SOUTHERN STUDIES Like a Family The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy Lu Ann Jones, Christopher B. Daly WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORS FOREWORD BY MICHAEL FRISCH The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London © 1987 The University of North Carolina Press Foreword and afterword © 2000 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Like a family: the making of a Southern cotton mill world / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall . . . [et al.]. p. cm. Previous ed. published: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-4879-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) i. Cotton trade — Southern States — History. 2. Cotton trade — Southern States — Employees — History. 3. Southern States — Social conditions. 4. Textile factories — Southern States — History. I. Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. 1109077. A 131.55 2000 30.5.9'7 — dczi 99-0878622 Frontispiece: The rising generation, Augusta, Georgia, 1909. Detail from a photograph by Lewis Hine. (Courtesy of the Photography Collections, Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland at Baltimore County) 04 03 02 01 oo 5 4 3 21 THIS BOOK WAS DIGITALLY PRINTED. To Our Families in Every Sense of the Word and to DC, AG, and DL This page intentionally left blank C O N T E N TS Foreword by Michael Frisch / xi Preface / xvii Acknowledgments / xxvii Note on Sources / xxxi PART ONE: COTTON MILL PEOPLE Chapter i. Everything We Had / 3 Chapter 2. Public Work / 44 Chapter 3. From the Cradle to the Grave / 114 PART TWO: AIR AND PROMISES Chapter 4. Hard Rules / 183 Chapter 5. Turn Your Radio On / 237 Chapter 6. A Multitude of Sins / 289 Epilogue / 358 Afterword / 364 Notes / 385 Bibliography / 447 Index / 477 This page intentionally left blank M A PS A ND I L L U S T R A T I O N S Maps i. Textile Spindleage in the Southeast, 1929 / xxxii 2. Counties of the Southeast, 1929 / xxxiv 3. Rivers and Railroads of the Southeast, 1930 / xxxvi 4. Selected Mill Towns of the Carolinas, 1930 / xxxviii Illustrations A North Carolina mountain Card room hands at the farm / 11 Franklinville Manufacturing Company / 70 Men gathered for wheat threshing / 23 Men and women weaving at the White Oak Mill/71 Advertisement for Altamahaw Plaids / 27 Women drawing in at the White Oak Mill / 75 Officers and superintendents of the Cone family's Proximity and The card room at the White Oak White Oak plants / 32 Mill / 83 The Gaffney Manufacturing Swimming in the whirlpool on Company / 35 the Deep River / 89 Workers at the Franklinville Girls enjoy a break from Manufacturing Company / 54 work / 91 Doffers at the Bibb Mill The superintendent's house at No. i / 57 the Franklinville Manufacturing Company / 117 Learning to spin / 65 D. A. Tompkin's plan for a Men opening bales of cotton at four-room mill house / 118 the White Oak Mill / 68
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