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In May 1914, workers walked off their jobs at Atlanta's Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, launching a lengthy strike that was at the heart of the American Federation of Labor's first major attempt to organize southern workers in over a decade. In its celebrity, the Fulton Mills strike was the regional contemporary of the well-known industrial conflicts in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Ludlow, Colorado. Although ultimately unsuccessful, the strike was an important episode in the development of the New South, and as Clifford Kuhn demonstrates, its story sheds light on the industrialization, urbanizati

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike, Atlanta, Ga., 1914-1915. --- Industrial relations. --- Strikes and lockouts. --- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike, Atlanta, Ga., 1914-1915 --- Strikes and lockouts --- Industrial relations --- History. --- Cotton manufacture --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- Employees --- Management