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INTRODUCTION
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World was written to provide a “social” history of the mill villages and all of its inhabitants. ... In short, “Like a Family tells the story of the making and unmaking of this cotton mill world.”
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Like a Family is a collaborative effort of six professors which actually began in the1970’s. ... Daly (Journalism Professor-Boston University) came together to breathe life into Like a Family. ...
ANALYTICAL SUMMARY
Like a Family serves as a social timeline spanning from the rise of the mill factories in the 1880’s to the decline of these factories with the General Textile Strike of 1934. ... The mill owners also had their strategies: they employed tactics of labor stealing and recruiting, firing at any time for any reason, and used the family labor system whereby adults were paid less than a living wage so that they and their children were forced to work. ... ” With the help of mill superintendent Copland, her family was given a job at the Burlington Mill when her father passed away. The mill was tough for her in the beginning, but through a sense of obligation to her family, and encouragement from Copland and Love himself, she came to love her job and receive a sense of satisfaction from it. ... She never married or had a family, but felt she had a family at work. ... They ultimately felt like they had always been taken advantage of, and after reading this book, can you blame them for feeling this way?
STYLE AND PRESENTATION
Like a Family serves as a social timeline spanning from the rise of the mill factories in the 1880’s to the decline of these factories with the General Textile Strike of 1934.
Approximate Word count = 3665
Approximate Pages = 14.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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