The Southern Work

The Southern Work

Author: Ellen G. White

Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780828018234

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Reprint of a 1901 booklet giving guidance for doing evangelistic work among Southern Blacks.


Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies

Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies

Author: Julia Cherry Spruill

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780393317589

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A seminal work exploring the daily life and status of southern women in colonial America, describes the domestic occupation, social life, education, and role in government of women of varied classes.


Secrets of the Southern Belle

Secrets of the Southern Belle

Author: Phaedra Parks

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476715467

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Who is always perfectly put together and never at a loss for words? Who is professional, courteous, and harder working than anyone else? Whose Christmas cards arrive the day after Thanksgiving, year after year? Y'all know she's got to be a Southern Belle. A Southern Belle takes care of herself and makes sure people treat her right. She always gets her way, even if her man thinks it was his idea. (That's a win for you both.) But you don't have to be raised in the South to be the same fun-loving package of looks, charm, and determination that makes a Belle a Belle. That's what this little book is for! Take it from Phaedra Parks, the smart, confident, and always poised star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Life as a Belle is simply better--for you and for the people around you.--From publisher description.


Upon the Altar of Work

Upon the Altar of Work

Author: Betsy Wood

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2020-09-14

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0252052323

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Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state. Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.


Twice the Work of Free Labor

Twice the Work of Free Labor

Author: Alexander C. Lichtenstein

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1996-01-17

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781859840863

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Twice the Work of Free Labor is both a study of penal labor in the southern United States, and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War.


Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields

Author: David Corbin

Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

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"Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal-mining culture"--Back cover.


Mama Learned Us to Work

Mama Learned Us to Work

Author: Lu Ann Jones

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003-10-16

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 080786207X

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Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic and cultural change. As consumers, farm women bargained with peddlers at their backdoors. A key business for many farm women was the "butter and egg trade--small-scale dairying and raising chickens. Their earnings provided a crucial margin of economic safety for many families during the 1920s and 1930s and offered women some independence from their men folks. These innovative women showed that poultry production paid off and laid the foundation for the agribusiness poultry industry that emerged after World War II. Jones also examines the relationships between farm women and home demonstration agents and the effect of government-sponsored rural reform. She discusses the professional culture that developed among white agents as they reconciled new and old ideas about women's roles and shows that black agents, despite prejudice, linked their clients to valuable government resources and gave new meanings to traditions of self-help, mutual aid, and racial uplift.


Textile Art from Southern Appalachia

Textile Art from Southern Appalachia

Author: Kathleen Curtis Wilson

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781570721984

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Features forty-four coverlets and two quilts made by hand weavers who lived in Western North Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee, and Southwest Virginia. Ms. Wilson has spent many years researching southern Appalachian overshot coverlet weaving.


Like a Family

Like a Family

Author: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-12-30

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 0807882941

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Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice