Abstract

Southern Mill Villages

The article focuses on two books on mill villages, "Southern Mill Hills," by Lois Macdonald, and "Welfare Work in Mill Villages," by Harriet L. Herring. The most interesting sections of Miss Macdonald's book deal with what she calls the mind of the worker. The chief preoccupation is the inability to provide for one's family, to say nothing of providing for it decently. There is little to distract the worker from this problem. Another book on the Southern textile industry is "Welfare Work in Mill Villages" by Harriet L. Herring. Dignified and impeccably thorough, it gives no picture of the attitudes of the mill worker. Other volumes, sponsored by the University of North Carolina's Institute of Research, are to follow Miss Herring's study.