A common thread: labor, politics, and capital mobility in the textile industry

"Positively alarming" : Southern boosters, Piedmont Mills, and New England responses

"Manufacturers surely cannot be expected to continue" : legislation, labor, and depression

"A model manufacturing town" : moving to Alabama City

"Small help" : unionization, capital mobility, and child-labor laws in Alabama

"A general demoralization of business" : the textile depression of the 1920s

"Dissatisfaction among labor" : the 1934 general strike

"We kept right on organizin'" : from defeat to victory and back again.