| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry. By Beth English. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xii, 236 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2628-3.)

This book examines the relocation and eventual demise of the Dwight Manufacturing Company as an "early step in the process of textile industry globalization" (p. 2). Beth English's goal is to illuminate current capital mobility by studying the movement of capital within the United States. Many of today's globalization issues would be familiar to those involved in the movement of northern textile firms to the South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Seeking cheap labor, unregulated labor markets, and higher profits, Dwight Manufacturing of Chicopee, Massachusetts, opened an Alabama plant in 1896.

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