1st Edition
You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand Culture, Ideology, and Action in the Gastonia Novels of Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Dargin
By Wes Mantooth
Copyright 2006
240 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 2007. In early 1929, two organizers for the American Communist Party’s recently established National Textile Worker’s Union (NTWU) journeyed south by motorcycle to investigate the potential for beginning organizing work among textile workers in the Piedmont region. One of these organizers, Fred Beal, decided to try his luck in Gastonia, North Carolina, which had been described... Read more
Introduction “Beats 100 Speeches and 9 Sermons Throwed In”; Chapter 1 “The Will to Win”: Working-Class Culture and Resistance in Myra Page’s; Chapter 2 “You Factory Folks Who Sing This Rhyme Will Surely Understand”: Cultural Representations in To Make My Bread; Chapter 3 “Nothing Is Right, but Everything Is Going to Be”: Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Culture in Olive Tilford Dargan’s Call Home the Heart and A Stone Came Rolling;
Biography
Wes Mantooth
