Southern labor history is replete with stories of defeat. In factory after factory, the defeat of southern workers' solidarity at the hands of industrial employers is one of the most enduring themes of the discipline. In Contesting the New South Order: The 1914–1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills, Clifford M. Kuhn examines the defeat of textile workers at Atlanta's largest industrial employer from a local perspective. Kuhn is not the first historian to examine the 1914–1915 strike at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill. Gary Fink's 1993 pioneering study, The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914–1915, presented a detailed analysis of the historic strike. Focusing on industrial espionage and efficiency, Fink uncovered the many ways in which the owner of Fulton Bag sought to control the lives of his employees and ultimately defeated the workers. Kuhn explores the strike from a different angle. He draws the history of the strike and the community of workers at the mill into a larger portrait of working-class life in Atlanta, a premier New South town. As a result, the voices of the workers resonate loudly throughout Kuhn's analysis. Drawing upon the unusually comprehensive and multi-faceted records of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, Kuhn presents a study that weaves a local story into the larger fabric of the region. The story of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill is unusual, not only for the strike itself, but for the fact that it offers a new urban environment in which to study the history of textile mills in the South. Kuhn's study traces the history of the company, its workers and the strike within a larger history of Atlanta and the New South.