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Clifford M. Kuhn. Contesting the New South Order: The 1914–1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 302. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

Only a minority of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills employees joined the strike that erupted in its Atlanta, Georgia, complex on May 20, 1914. Yet that strike garnered enormous attention, both from contemporaries and from recent labor historians. During its time, it attracted federal investigators and national newspaper coverage, and, in the past decade, the strike has been the subject of not one but two detailed histories. Clifford M. Kuhn's effort to situate the Fulton Mills' strike "within the larger milieu of the urban South during the Progressive Era" (p. 5) follows hard on the heels of a book on the same subject by Gary M. Fink, The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914–1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and New South Industrial Relations (1993). One might understandably wonder whether a small strike that resulted in such a clear defeat for textile workers' union efforts merits such close scrutiny. Yet most readers of Kuhn's meticulously researched volume will easily understand why the Fulton strike continues to attract attention today as it did in its time.

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