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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1973 - 5/31/1974

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)

A Study of the Social and Economic Mobility of Southern cotton Textile Workers 1880-1920

FAIN: FB-11706-73

Tom E. Terrill
University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC 29208-0001)

This study of the social and economic mobility of Southern cotton textile workers is designed to determine what benefits these workers received when they left farming and entered textile mills. Did they participate in the American dream of upward mobility? Were they part of larger communties or were they isolated?