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Under the Workers' Caps: From Champion Mill to Blue Ridge Paper. By George Loveland. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 201. $29.00, ISBN 1-57233-365-0.)
In Under the Workers ' Caps: From Champion Mill to Blue Ridge Paper, George Loveland meticulously traces the events surrounding the sale of two paper mills in western North Carolina to the mill employees. Loveland's detailed account of this unprecedented development is an important contribution to the field of labor history. He begins with Champion Paper's 1997 announcement that it was going to sell its "nonstrategic assets," including the two mills in North Carolina (p. ix). Loveland chronicles how the workers at the mills, although initially shocked by the announcement, overcame their original response and quickly established a committee to organize...