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21824
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A look at the hillbilly songs of Dave McCarn, a Gastonia, textile mill worker, who wrote about the realities of life for Southern mill workers in the 1920s-30s. McCarn's best-known recording, \"Cotton Mill Colic,\" and its two sequels, criticized the Southern textile industry for failing to pay workers a living wage.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 3, July 2003,
p297-333, il, por, f
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24385
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Textile/Clothing Technology Corp. is a company that hopes to save U.S. apparel makers from faltering productivity and sales. Using innovation and equipment modernization, the company hopes to bolster the nation’s manufacturers, which have been suffering as a result of outsourcing and rising imports.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, April 1988,
p40-43, il
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24193
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Asheboro-based Fox Apparel struggles to keeps its doors open since 1995, when apparel-manufacturing jobs the United States gave way to technology improvements and low-cost imports.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 27 Issue 4, April 2007,
p66-73, il
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4529
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Unlike northern mill villages, where there were rowhouses or apartments, mill villages in North Carolina tended to have detached, single-family dwellings with lots for gardens or animals. There was no indoor plumbing, and wells were shared. Other village buildings included warehouses, the company store, an area for recreation, a church, and a school.
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21072
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Ethel Thomas was a North Carolina author who wrote under the pen name, 'Aunt Becky,' and published in the Charlotte area during the first half of the 19th century. Thomas wrote fictional accounts about the Southern textile industry which was a large economic cog of the Charlotte area. Publisher David Clark, owner of the Southern Textile Bulletin, reprinted several of Thomas' novels in his magazine as well as put 'Aunt Becky' in a weekly column where she served up folksy success stories, advice, news, descriptions of Southern mill towns she had visited.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 5, 1996,
p154-167, por
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21074
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In these excerpts from early 20th century columnist Ethel Thomas, also known under her pen name 'Aunt Becky,' she dispenses advice on a variety of topics to textile workers from around the South. These topics include her views on beauty, cursing, uniforms, and conspicuous absence.
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32339
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In 1972, Colon Byrd, Jr., and Andrew Turik formed their own small business, Precision Cutting and Winding, Inc., to convert synthetic textile fibers products into usable fibers. Located in Kinston, their business has developed into a profitable company that is providing employment opportunities for many Lenoir County residents. This article discusses how Byrd and Turik developed the company and some of the financial challenges they faced.
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197
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Daniel A. Tompkins is the South's pioneer machinery agent based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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11107
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John E. Reeves, a native of Mount Airy, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Reeves Brothers, Inc., which was founded in Mount Airy in the early 1920s by Micah R. and John M. Reeves. The company is one of the nation's larger textile manufacturing corporations. Reeves is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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33067
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Raymond H. Cates and the PPG Industries fiber glass plant that he supervises in Lexington will observe twentieth anniversaries next year. Cates began his PPG career at the company’s Shelby fiber glass plant, which opened in 1967. In this article, Cates discusses his background, experience as a chemist, and the products manufactured by the textile plants.
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4419
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The Southern textile industry relied on child labor. Between 1880 and 1910, around one-fourth of the workforce was under the age of sixteen; many laborers were as young as seven. Soon reformers questioned the use of children as laborers working long hours. In 1913, North Carolina and other states passed laws restricting the hours children could work. Many manufacturers ignored the laws. It would be another ten years before child labor reforms became effective.
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10370
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Cone Mills Corporation, with seventeen plants in twelve cities and towns in North and South Carolina, is one of the largest manufacturers of textile fabrics. The company employs a workforce of over 14,000 and annually uses around 400,000 five-hundred-pound bales of cotton.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 17 Issue 6, Nov 1959,
p46, 49-50, 79, il, por
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19673
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Textile industries within the state flourished during the Civil War. The industry profited with demand high for every scrap of cloth and spare piece of thread due to heavy regulation by the state. Regulatory effects of textile output, prices, and profits are analyzed.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Apr 1932,
p117-137, f
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22708
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David Clark (1877-1955), an ultra-conservative spokesman for southern textile industrialists, worked to halt child labor legislation in interest of textile mills and the Farmers' States Rights League, which relied heavily on child labor in the early 1900s.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 1, January 2014,
p30-62, il, por, f
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21731
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This article examines the life of David Clark, editor of the 'Southern Textile Bulletin,' a trade journal for textile workers. Clark was born in Raleigh in 1877 and attended North Carolina State College and Cornell University where he received degrees in engineering. The article spends particular time on Clark's role in defending racism in the South and his efforts to protect the interests of the textile industry.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 89 Issue 1, January 2012,
p59-91 , il, por, f
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