Research Catalog

Alamance : the Holt family and industrialization in a North Carolina county, 1837-1900

Title: Alamance : the Holt family and industrialization in a North Carolina county, 1837-1900 / Bess Beatty.
Author: Beatty, Bess, 1947-
Publication: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1999], ©1999.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	HD9880.H65 B4 1999	Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xx, 247 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"Covering the Holt dynasty from the founding of the Alamance Factory in 1837 to the strike of 1900 that eventually shut down most of the mills the family had built, Alamance provides an excellent social history of southern industrial development. Bess Beatty intersperses chapters on the rise of the Holts with profiles on their workers to provide a thorough explanation of how industrialization affected sectional, familial, racial, and gender relations across class lines.
Focusing on class formation and conflict, she rejects the long-held view that southern owners were paternalistic and that workers were docile and deferential, instead arguing that owners and workers had a contentious class-driven relationship, with both sides.".
"Beatty's relatively narrow subject and geographic approach, combined with an unusually comprehensive timespan, enable her to effectively analyze social and industrial change - particularly the development of the textile industry in the southern Piedmont - through six decades."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index.

Contents

1. A Man of Chance: Edwin Holt and the Alamance Factory, 1837-1860 -- 2. Worthy of Their Sire: An Industrial Family in Antebellum North Carolina -- 3. Those Who Might Otherwise be Wretched: Workers in the Alamance Factory, 1837-1860 -- 4. The Rich Man's War: Owners and Workers During the Civil War -- 5. A Sort of Resurrection: The Holt Mills During Reconstruction -- 6. Truly a Manufacturing Section: The Holt Mills, 1865-1900 -- 7. Badges of Social Standing: The Holt Family, 1865-1900 -- 8. Destined to Work: Alamance County Mill Workers, 1865-1900 -- 9. Citizens of a Common Country: The Alamance County Strike of 1900 -- 10. The Day Spencer Love Came to Town -- App. Holt Family Tree.

ISBN

0807123730 (alk. paper)
0807124494 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99023181

OCLC

ocm41118491

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries