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From the cotton field to the cotton mill a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina

Thompson, Holland 1873-1940 (Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Thompson's thesis looks at life prior to the Civil War when slavery and farms or plantations were the way of life and compares it to after the Civil War. The paper looks at the rise of mills, particularly cotton, and the effects on farms as many moved to mill towns where adults and children found jobs. Also looks at the change in living standards and accepted abodes for homes, the impact of mills on everyday life, employee and employer relationships, African Americans in the work force with whites, children in the workforce, and even comapares wages and cost of items with those in the North.

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Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Electronic data (1 file : ca. 320 kilobytes).
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Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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General Note:	Text scanned (OCR) by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tammy Evans. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Melissa Meeks and Natalia Smith. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940. Title from electronic title page (viewed Aug. 26, 2002).
Dissertation Note:	Ph. D. Columbia University
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:	Transcribed from: From the cotton field to the cotton mill : a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina / by Holland Thompson. New York : Macmillan, 1906. ix, 284, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Signed by author.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
System Details Note:	System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.