Author

Publication

2009 - MacAdam/Cage Pub., San Francisco, CA, California

Language

English

Word Count

39,000 words, Guess

Page Count

156 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781596923614
  • ISBN-10159692361X
  • LibraryThing9086165
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009028700
  • OCLC Control Number319497377
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC331.7/66700976163
  • LCCHD8039.T42 U6416 2009

Description

The story of the mill people of Jacksonville, Alabama.In spring 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Now they stood looking down, bitter, angry, afraid. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on, in a mist of white air. The mill had become almost a living thing, rewarding the hard-working and careful with the best payday they ever had, but punishing the careless and clumsy, taking a finger, a hand, more.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryBiographyNonfictionTextile workersSocial conditionsEconomic conditionsTextile workers -- Alabama -- Jacksonville -- Biography

Places

AlabamaJacksonvilleJacksonville (Ala.)

Times

Genres

  • Biography

Other Editions

  • The most they ever hadMacAdam/Cage Pub.2009

Reader Reviews

No reviews yet for this book.

Be the first to share your thoughts!