Strike! - Softcover

Vorse, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252062175 ISBN 13: 9780252062179

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1991

Synopsis

The most famous of the bloody southern textile strikes that took place in the late 1920s occurred at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, where workers endured fifty-five-hour work weeks, the stretchout, and pay so low that everyone in their families over sixteen normally was expected to enter the mill. Strike! is a vivid portrait of the mill workers' living and working conditions, the discomfort of the few southern liberals, the labor spies, the wavering morale of the strikers, the shootings, deaths, and trials, and the vigilante mobs. The story is told by Mary Heaton Vorse, the leading labor reporter of the period, who had covered major strikes since 1912. This novel was the first of six inspired by the Gastonia strike. Critics hailed it as the best.

About this title

About the Author:

Dee Garrison is a Professor of History Emeritus at Rutgers University who specializes in the history of American social movements, gender history, and peace history.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0252062175
• ISBN 13: 9780252062179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264