My World Is Gone

Memories of Life in a Southern Cotton Mill Town

By George G. Suggs, Jr.

Cloth - 9780814330357
Price: $41.95s

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Published 2002
Size: 6 X 9, Pages: 178

Subjects: Labor and Urban Studies: Labor Studies


Description

In this firsthand account of his native Bladenboro, North Carolina, George G. Suggs, Jr., captures in rich detail the world of a thriving cotton mill town where the company was dominant but workers had forged a strong community.

Published by Wayne State University Press

Reviews

"When his mill-worker father observed, My World is Gone, the historian son determined to recapture that lost world as written history. The result is a moving tribute to [Sugg's] father and other relatives and acquaintances who were part of that past."

— Bess Beatty, Oregon State University