Only the Greeks (48%) and the Poles (43%) rivaled the Portuguese. One of the most remarkable findings from the 1920 federal census concerns the gender composition of cotton mill workers. Unlike ...

A man who came across a forgotten 200-year-old story of the massacre of starving cotton workers while walking his dog has ...

Changes began in the 1850s. As the railroad expanded in the South, production of cotton, wheat, and tobacco increased. Entrepreneurs needed capital and a steady supply of workers for the southern mill ...

The Convention of the United Textile Workers of America, which will meet in this city on Oct. 20, will devote a great deal of its time to the discussion of unionizing cotton-mill labor in the South.