Download 'My World Is Gone': Memories of Life in a Southern Cotton Mill Town AudioBook Free
Baseball, faith, work, death, and the business store - these figured eminently in the lives of Southern cotton mill personnel and their own families during the early years of the 20th hundred years. On this firsthand bank account of his local Bladenboro, NEW YORK, George G. Suggs, Jr., catches in rich aspect the world of a thriving cotton mill town where in fact the company was prominent but workers got forged a solid community. Here the emphasis is on the personnel - their passions, personalities, and principles - in their finest and in their darker occasions. Ultimately, we start to see the many measurements of working-class culture and style a way of life that has vanished. Pulling upon childhood remembrances and his father's recollections, Suggs covers occasions in Bladenboro during the 1930s and 40s. He explains the nature of cotton mill work, the tensions and strains made by undesired working conditions, and the many ways in which workers and their own families learned to deal. Many character types emerge from this history - from the kind woman who dispensed the business fiat money to the needy men who would gamble it away. The booklet explores key topics such as sociable rankings, health care, the business store, and individuals' replies to death. Most importantly, we observe how faith found manifestation on the job and in the surrounding evangelical churches. The personnel of Bladenboro have died, and little remains of the mills, but this work gives tribute to lives well lived under the most challenging circumstances. The booklet is posted by Wayne Express University Press.
