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Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative (review)

manufacturing jobs in developed nations or the exploitation of workers in developing nations. Given the powerful corporate and political forces aligned against them and the exploitation of racial divisions those forces perpetuated, it is not clear that a more southern strategy on the part of union leadership could have successfully organized a majority of southern textile workers. Nevertheless, additional funding and manpower, English convinces us, could not have hurt. As the first major New England textile manufacturer to move assets south, the Dwight Manufacturing Company played a significant role in the history of Alabama. Dwight Company officials worked to prevent child-labor legislation, as well as state regulation of working hours and conditions in Alabama’s textile mills and villages. Corporate officials testified before legislative committees, sought to sway the votes of individual state legislators, and used the economic needs of communities like Gadsden and Alabama City to influence the actions of local and state political officials. Pro-business politicians and corporate officials worked together to block every effort to unionize or even protect workers. Although conditions improved for Alabama laborers in the 1930s and 1940s, the fruits of their long struggle came too late to prevent the closure of the Dwight facility in Alabama or the beginnings of a new relocation of the textile industry out of the American South to low-wage, less-regulated economies in Asia and Latin America. Cogent and tightly written, A Common Thread demonstrates the historical and ongoing relationship between developed and less-developed regional economies. English effectively links the American South to a broader history of international economic development and labor organization.