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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-100807846171

ISBN-139780807846179

eBay Product ID (ePID)997248

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Book TitleLike Night and Day : Unionization in a Southern Mill Town

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLabor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry

Publication Year1997

FeaturesNew Edition

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorDaniel J. Clark

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-007730

Reviews[P]rovides a sense of immediacy that makes his work a lively presentation that reads in places like a novel. South Carolina Review, No one concerned about industrial justice can truly comprehend this struggle without entering the shop-floor world that Clark reveals. David Brody, University of California, Davis, [P]rovides a sense of immediacy that makes his work a lively presentation that reads in places like a novel.South Carolina Review, One of the best available accounts of workplace conflict over the hated 'stretch-out.' Reviews in American History, One of the best available accounts of workplace conflict over the hated 'stretch-out.'" Reviews in American History, Clark's use of details provides a sense of immediacy that makes his work a lively presentation that reads in places like a novel."-- South Carolina Review, No one concerned about industrial justice can truly comprehend this struggle without entering the shop-floor world that Clark reveals.David Brody, University of California, Davis, One of the best available accounts of workplace conflict over the hated 'stretch-out.'Reviews in American History

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal331.88/177/009756532

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisDaniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Specifically, Clark points to the importance members placed on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have seen as impediments rather than improvements. From the signing of contracts in 1943 until a devastating strike fifteen years later, the union gave local workers the tools they needed to secure at least some measure of workplace autonomy and respect from their employer. Union-instituted grievance procedures were not without flaws, says Clark, but they were the linchpin of these efforts. When arbitration and grievance agreements collapsed in 1958, the result was the strike that ultimately broke the union. Based on complete access to company archives and transcripts of grievance hearings, this case study recasts our understanding of labor-management relations in the postwar South., Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Specifically, Clark points to the importance members placed on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have seen as impediments rather than improvements.From the signing of contracts in 1943 until a devastating strike fifteen years later, the union gave local workers the tools they needed to secure at least some measure of workplace autonomy and respect from their employer. Union-instituted grievance procedures were not without flaws, says Clark, but they were the linchpin of these efforts. When arbitration and grievance agreements collapsed in 1958, the result was the strike that ultimately broke the union. Based on complete access to company archives and transcripts of grievance hearings, this case study recasts our understanding of labor-management relations in the postwar South., Demonstrates the impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. The text shows that workers valued the unions for higher wages and improved benefits as well as the grievance and arbitration procedures they made available.

LC Classification Number96-7730 [HD]