This is a heartening and inspiring story of the regeneration of the southern piedmont region after the desolation of war and reconstruction had all but destroyed its economy and disrupted its social life. It is a sociopsychological study of the growth of cotton mills viewed as a social movement.

Originally published in 1956.

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