Like A Family was written to illustrate the emergence of the wage labor movement in the South through the textile industry and how these cotton mills evolved into a major economic way of life for Southerners. The origins of this book began during the 1970?s by the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina. The authors wanted to capture the industrialization of the New South through orations by men and women whose past lay in an agrarian lifestyle to the transformati

ves of those people involved with cotton mill labor.

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Primary sources are used that include oral accounts, pictorials, and written documents to support the ideas of the authors. The desire to present this book from everyday speech guided the treatment of sources by the authors. The interviews were edited with great care and were the words of the original people interviewed. Quotations from written sources were kept in their original form. The style of writing was both simple and technical with logical ideas conveyed in both elementary and scholarly ways.

on of these people to factory workers. Like A Family tries to bridge the gap between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries while contributing to the steady flow of working-class people

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)