No industry has had a greater impact on North Carolina's
history than textile manufacturing. In nearly every region
of the state, particularly in the Piedmont, textile production
has shaped every fact of life--business, politics, architecture, social relations, culture. Many communities throughout the state derive their character from the presence of the textile industry.

Author Brent D. Glass examines North Carolina's textile industry from its roots in the spinning wheels and handlooms of the colonial and antebellum periods through the
massive buy-outs, consolidations, and plant closings of the 1980s.

More than fifty black-and-white images of people, factories, and equipment illustrate the text. There is also a selected bibliography and index.

Paperbound. Pp. 119. Illus. Index. (1992) (t)

2560$12.00

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