textile industry
September 11, 2013 -
The labor movement needs to build power in the South by undertaking an effort like the historic Southern organizing drive the CIO launched in 1946. A union organizer and a student of labor history offer their blueprint for doing just that.
April 30, 2013 -
How many tragedies will it take before industry stops its relentless search for the world's cheapest wages and decides fair labor costs and safe working conditions are a part of doing business?
February 3, 2012 -
A group in Gaston County, N.C. is determined to keep alive the memory of the labor leader, who was murdered in 1929 after crossing racial lines in her effort to unionize a local textile mill.
July 28, 2005 -
Since CAFTA passed the House by just one vote this morning -- 217-215 -- you can point to any one of the "ayes" as the "deciding vote." But as we predicted yesterday, the most gripping drama was in the South, where enough Southern Reps were big enough question marks that they could effectively extort dozens of
March 1, 1994 -
Twenty years after their historic victory at J.P. Stevens, mill workers in Roanoke Rapids have reformed schools, improved race relations, and reshaped the entire community.
August 1, 1992 -
His father was a company man, loyal to J.P. Stevens. Now the mills are growing quiet.
October 1, 1991 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 19 No. 3, "Fishy Business." Find more from that issue here.
