| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. By John A. Salmond. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xii, 295 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1395-2.)
The general textile strike of 1934 has received considerable attention in recent years. Such acclaimed works as Like a Family (1987), by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall et al., and George Stoney and Judith Helfand's film The Uprising of '34 (1995) have helped resurrect, in both scholarly and popular circles, this important event in American labor history.	1
These recent treatments of the strike have overwhelmingly focused on how the strike played out in the South. It was militant southern workers, after all, whose anger over National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) code violations precipitated the strike. It was in the supposedly anti-union South where many of the strike's most dramatic encounters and confrontations took place. And the strike's legacy continued to be felt in the region for generations. Yet, for all of the South's centrality, the strike was by no means a regional conflict alone, as John A. Salmond demonstrates. Salmond shows that the strike was truly a national affair, extending into hundreds of communities "from Maine to Alabama." His richly textured portrait of those diverse communities enables one to see the dispute in a new light.	. . .

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