Shaking All the Corners of the Sky
The Global Response to the Gastonia Strike of 1929
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895931 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina L Bake (corresponding author), William J Baker (0000-0001-6727-1831) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 321-332 |
| Publication date | 1990-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-021-03-03 |
| OpenAlex | W2060883648 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In the spring of 1929, thousands of textile workers in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina went on strike, protesting the deterioration of wages and working conditions in the mills. The notorious "stretch-out" system, imposed by management two years earlier, came especially under fire, but strike efforts in the Appalachian mountain town of Elizabethton, Tennessee, in the textile centers of Gastonia and Marion, North Carolina, and in dozens of smaller piedmont mill towns all met with little success. One strike after another failed in the face of mill owners determined to retain their entrepreneurial autonomy, local police and state militia aggressively committed to traditional patterns of law and order, and public opinion hostile to "outside agitators." The world looked on, aghast, at these Southern scenes of resistance to change.1
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |