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• W268853314 abstract "A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in Textile Industry. By Beth English. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2006. 236 pages. $39.95 (hardcover). The globalization of industry is not a new phenomenon. In A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in Textile Industry, Beth English looks at New England textile manufacturers' shift to South from 1880 through 1920s. During this crucial period, differences between northern and southern branches' wages, hours, and labor organization contributed to industry's ultimate decline between 1920's and 1960's. Her analysis focuses specifically on Dwight Manufacturing Company, a textile producer that originated in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and was one of first New England textile companies to open a southern branch factory. English's case study serves as an example of why many northern textile manufacturers relocated to South and offers lessons that companies can glean from such capital mobility. During early nineteenth century, textile manufacturing drove New England's industrialization and, by 1820, entrepreneurs such as Springfield merchant Jonathan Dwight Sr. had built factories along Chicopee River. Industrial development continued to grow but was curtailed during Civil War due to a lack of shipments of southern cotton. Although Dwight Company returned to full production after war, expansion to South loomed on horizon. The post-war South needed to rebuild its economy, as it could no longer depend on plantation system and slave labor, and English explains that logical answer to South's dilemma was industrialization. However, task that remained was how to attract investors, especially Northern ones, to region. Southern industrial boosters advertised cheap, docile, and native (15) labor force that was available in Southern Piedmont. This was particularly alluring to Dwight Company's management, which was continually clashing with operatives. In April 1874, a five -week strike by mulespinners after management refused to restore previously cut wages shut down two of Dwight Company's seven production buildings. Following walkout, management worked hard to prevent workers from organizing and staging protests. Such clashes, coupled with increasingly restrictive labor legislation, reinforced image of South as the land of low wages, laissez-faire, and high profits, (39) that offered a way to escape limitations of North and set up business in a region where state and local governments' policies were more agreeable to manufacturers. The Dwight Company seized its opportunity in 1896 and opened its Alabama branch. While both northern and southern branches operated simultaneously, South's lack of limitations on working hours and low wages paid to Alabama operatives gave southern branch edge over northern branch. …" @default.
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