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Author: Sherley Anne Williams
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 9780152996246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
Author: Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780252006678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. Wayne Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1999-08-30
Total Pages: 882
ISBN-13: 9780471180456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a vital new source of "need-to-know" information for cotton industry professionals. Unlike other references that focus solely on growing the crop, this book also emphasizes the cotton industry as a whole, and includes material on the nature of cotton fibers and their processing; cotton standards and classification; and marketing strategies.
Author: Robin Nelson
Publisher: LernerClassroom
Published: 2013-03
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 076138572X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does cotton turn into a soft T-shirt? Follow each step in the production cycle--from growing cotton to wearing a comfy shirt--in this fascinating book!
Author: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-30
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 0807882941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 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
Author: Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth
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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helen Macnaughtan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415328050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better known Japanese employment system which was applied to male employees. Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle describes and analyses the place of female workers in the cotton textile industry, which was a crucially important industry with a large workforce. In presenting detailed data on such key issues as recruitment systems, management practices and the working experience of the women involved, it demonstrates the importance for Japan's postwar economy of harnessing female labour during these years.
Author: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-01-05
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1429962151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years. Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released, after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face-- and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. With Picking Cotton, Jennifer and Ronald tell in their own words the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 0375713964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
Author: Victoria Morris Byerly
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780875461298
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