Book Review of Like A Family

?Book Review of Like A Family? By Chad Collins Jacquelyn D. Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly wrote Like A Family. The book was published under W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. in New York City during 1989. It is a first edition soft cover book with 468 pages and costs $12.95. Like A Family was written to illustrate the emergence of the wage labor movement in the South through the …

…both elementary and scholarly ways. Although the book is concise, I believe the authors could have been more methodical in their approach to the material. The book is written chronologically but the authors made sporadic points, which fell outside the consistency of the original idea. Overall, I feel the authors achieved their goal by engaging the audience in a factual, colorful, and rich story about the making of a southern cotton mill world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**