{"product_id":"fabric-of-defeat","title":"Fabric of Defeat","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFabric of Defeat\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBryant Simon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780807847046\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe University of North Carolina Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e368\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues -- at the polling station, on front porches, and on the shop floor -- and examines their political involvement at the local, state, and national levels. He describes the campaign styles and rhetoric of such politicians as Coleman Blease and Olin Johnston (himself a former millhand), who eagerly sought the workers' votes. He draws a detailed picture of mill workers casting ballots, carrying placards, marching on the state capital, writing to lawmakers, and picketing factories. These millhands' politics reflected their public and private thoughts about whiteness and blackness, \u003cbr\u003ewar and the New Deal, democracy and justice, gender and sexuality, class relations and consumption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, the people depicted here are neither romanticized nor dismissed as the stereotypically racist and uneducated \"rednecks\" found in many accounts of southern politics. Southern workers understood the political and social forces that shaped their lives, argues Simon, and they developed\u003cbr\u003ecomplex political strategies to deal with those forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Fabric of Defeat | Bryant Simon | Paperback | 9780807847046 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks I 1753694","offer_id":49002235003032,"sku":"1753694","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81tGr76JJ2L.jpg?v=1778256477","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/fabric-of-defeat","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}