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You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand - Softcover

Book 34 of 155: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Mantooth, Wes

 
9780415762878: You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415762871 ISBN 13: 9780415762878
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

First published in 2007. In early 1929, two organizers for the American Communist Party’s recently established National Textile Worker’s Union (NTWU) journeyed south by motorcycle to investigate the potential for beginning organizing work among textile workers in the Piedmont region. One of these organizers, Fred Beal, decided to try his luck in Gastonia, North Carolina, which had been described to him as key to organizing the South In a chain of events whose rapidity and magnitude took Beal by surprise, workers at the Loray mill became embroiled in a Communist-led strike that would eventually focus national and even international attention on Gastonia. This book focuses on Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Darganthe three authors of Gastonia novels who penetrate most incisively into the working-class experience beneath historical and political accounts of the strike and its larger context.

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Wes Mantooth

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415762871
ISBN 13 
9780415762878
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
244