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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: FROM CONGREGATION TOWN TO INDUSTRIAL CITY: INDUSTRIALIZATION, CLASS, AND CULTURE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY WINSTON AND SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA (LABOR, SOUTH) Abstract: This study describes the evolution of two southern towns in the North Carolina piedmont as they experienced vast economic changes during the nineteenth century. Before the Civil War Salem, founded in 1766, and Winston, established in 1849, were small commercial centers with artisans and merchants engaged in an extensive trade with farmers in the neighboring countryside. But beginning in the 1830s and culminating in the 1890s the two towns made the transition from a local economy based on exchange with nearby rural communities to an economy that extended beyond county and state boundaries, thus bringing deeper involvement in a regional and national market economy. By the 1890s Winston and Salem had evolved into a major industrial center of the southern piedmont employing large numbers of semi-skilled workers in factories and mills manufacturing textiles and tobacco products. |
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