Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Tables, Figures, and Maps xi
• Acknowledgments xv
• Introduction xxi
• Beginnings: the Crown Cotton Mill of Dalton, 1884 1
• Part I - The Origins of Industry, 1865-1900 7
• 1 - An Economic Reconstruction 9
• 2 - Dalton's Industrial Resolution 36
• 3 - Patterns of Protest 56
• Part II - Creating the Crown Mill Community, 1900-1919 77
• 4 - Managing Growth 79
• 5 - Labor in Short Supply 97
• 6 - The Creation of Mill­ Village Paternalism 120
• Part III - The Family and the Feud, 1920-1939 143
• 7 - The Crown Mill Family 145
• 8 - Makin' Do: Survival on Cotton-Mill Time 169
• 9 - The Great Depression and the Union 188
• 10 - Torn Asunder: the Strike of 1939 209
• Part IV - Beyond Paternalism, 1940-1969 231
• 11 - Labors of War, Wars of Labor 233
• 12 - Disappearing Mill Villages in a Changing South 262
• 13 - Booming Unions and Union Busting 282
• 14 - Shutdown in the Sunbelt 307
• Echoes: the Crownamerica Centennial, 1984 328
• Appendix A - Selected Tables and Crown Mill Profit Chart 337
• Appendix B - Quantitative Analyses: Data and Methods 345
• Notes 359
• Bibliography 403
• Index 419

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