Like A Family Book Review
Jacquelyn D. Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly wrote Like A Family. The book was published under W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. in New York City during 1989. It is a first edition soft cover book with 468 pages and costs $12.95. 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 transformation of these people to factory workers. L
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Some common words found in the essay are:
North Carolina, York City, Christopher Daly, cotton mill, cotton mill world, mill world, cotton mills, north carolina, major economic, wage labor,
Approximate Word count = 576
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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