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The Family Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880–1915

general patterns of labor organization that emerged throughout the southern Piedmont cotton textile industry, this dissertation examines the labor process of a representative mill, the Alamance Mill in North Carolina, for the years 1890-1912. The primary data source is the Alamance Mill records which include the daily payroll books, the company store ledgers, the housing rental accounts, and business correspondence. Important patterns within the Alamance Mill Village are found to be characteristic of the general trends of labor deployment. Moreover, by tracing the family background and employment histories of individuals, invaluable information about variations among workers with regard to employment, stability, productivity, and earnings could be obtained. This study focuses on the slave economy of nineteenth-century Minas Gerais. 1 This was the largest regional slave system that ever existed in Brazil, and at its high point the servile population of Minas was larger than that of any slave society in America at any time, except the United States, Cuba, and Saint Domingue in their heydays. In spite of its obvious importance in the history of slavery in the Western world, very little research has been done on this area. The prevailing views can be summarized as follows: in the eighteenth century, owing to the gold and diamond rushes, a large contingent of slaves was gathered in Minas. the mining boom faded away, the slaves retreated with their masters to the subsistence sector where they became economically "underutilized." The regional economy entered into a dormant period until it was