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Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village

Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village

Anderson, Cynthia D.

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Series: Transnational Business and Corporate Culture: Problems and O

Business GeneralEconomicsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138996203
ISBN13: 9781138996205
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 29 2016
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book analyzes the dramatic social impacts of global economic restructuring in the US textile industry and the consequences for Southern textile mill communities. With the expansion of markets in the global economy, government policies such as NAFTA and GATT are greatly affecting the domestic production of textiles. Increased global competitiveness has led to technological modernization, plant shutdowns, and downward pressure on wages. Many family-owned companies are merging into conglomerates, some of which are international. Concurrently, the structure of power and domination in Southern textile communities is changing. Paternalistic control, typically portrayed as a form of traditional authority and benevolent protection of workers, is no longer dominant. With the decreased need for skilled labor, textile company owners are not obligated to provide mill villages with housing electricity, and water. Formerly protected communities are now players on an international scale, with workers competing for jobs on a global level. New forms of class exploitation, racism, and sexism provide a contested terrain for mill employees.

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