Project Director

Ward, James

Department

Dept. of Humanities

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Local industrial textile workers began to react during World War I to the injustices that had been growing in the local textile industry since the 1890's when the factory system started to dominate Chattanooga's textile production. By May, 1917, the city's textile workers became aware of the social gap that had been evolving under the new manufacturing system and determined to lessen it by unionizing under the leadership of the United Textile Workers of America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor.

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank everybody who in some way helped me to complete this project. Although my name fills the author's space, I know that the Chattanooga community did most of the work. Without the compiling efforts of the UTC Lupton Library, the Chattanooga Public Library, and the Regional History Museum, I would not have had the same wealth of untapped information so readily available to me. I would not have realized the value of this information if not for the direction provided by Dr. Larry Ingle, Dr. Phillip Giffin, Dr. John Trimpey, and Dr. James Ward (who had the unfortunate luck as my project director of having to read and correct the paper from its first draft to its current form). I would not have known what to do with the information if my roomates, Mike Langley and Rob Pekkanen, had not gone through the same process a semester earlier than I, and I would not have had the courage to put my community under the microscope as I have if not for the inspiring, tireless, and frequent all-night arguments I had with Drew Wright when I was a freshman. Finally, my parents were a great source of support--if not for their enduring help, I would never have finished this project.

Degree

B. A.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Date

5-1990

Subject

Textile workers--Labor unions--Tennessee--Chattanooga--History--20th century; Textile industry--Tennessee--Chattanooga--History--20th century

Name

United Textile Workers of America

Discipline

Labor History

Document Type

Theses

Extent

iv, 39 leaves

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Call Number

LB2369.5 .S7655 1990

Rights

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