Mill Family

"Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and historical work, notably on human capital and family economy, McHugh's brief, tightly argued book shows how an apparent "new departure," the coming of industry to the South, utilized the values and institutions of traditional southern white culture to create a stable, disciplined work force."--Business History Review "[This book] presents intriguing questions about industrialization and the creation of work discipline, and is interesting both as southern history and as labor history."--International Labor and Working Class History "Unique...in its extensive use of quantitative methods of analysis and in its close consideration of one particular case, that of the Alamance Mill in North Carolina."--Journal of Southern History "A useful study and adds in important ways to a major area in the history of the American South."--American Historical Review "Can remind us all of the rewards in reading nonsociologists' ventures into our substantive domains."--Contemporary Sociology "Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and historical work, notably on human capital and family economy, McHugh's brief, tightly argued book shows how an apparent "new departure," the coming of industry to the South, utilized the values and institutions of traditional southern white culture to create a stable, disciplined work force."--Business History Review "[This book] presents intriguing questions about industrialization and the creation of work discipline, and is interesting both as southern history and as labor history."--International Labor and Working Class History "Unique...in its extensive use of quantitative methods of analysis and in its close consideration of one particular case, that of the Alamance Mill in North Carolina."--Journal of Southern History "A useful study and adds in important ways to a major area in the history of the American South."--American Historical Review "Can remind us all of the rewards in reading nonsociologists' ventures into our substantive domains."--Contemporary Sociology