The book gives a candid look into the lives of the workers in the small, insular mill villages of West, Georgia. It focuses on Villa Rica and Fullerville, and relates the conditions under which the people lived and labored. These events are carefully woven into a tapestry of the happenings in the other West Georgia area mill towns, as well as the happenings occuring in the outside world. Some well known historical events impacted life within the village, and others passed almost without notice. The revelations describing the health care, sanitation, working and living conditions, even in...