Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000. By Michelle Haberland. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 2015. Pp. [xii], 228. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-4742-4; cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2584-2.) Michelle Haberland's study of southern women workers in the U.S. apparel industry is a welcome addition to the existing literatures on southern labor history and the history of women and work. Apparel, Haberland suggests, was a key sector in southern manufacturing that has been obscured by (or conflated with) textiles in much historical writing on southern labor. Because the apparel workforce was much more heavily female (around 80 percent), her book not only chronicles a largely untold story but also provides rich opportunities to examine southern working women's lives. Moreover, it shows how women's history can offer new insights about the histories of economic development, unionization, racial inequality, and industrial decline. Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 takes readers on a tour of southern apparel manufacturing from the start of the Great Depression through the end of the twentieth century. Haberland begins by exploring the industry's emergence in the South as a sector fleeing northern-based unions starting in the 1930s. She traces the history of union organizing in southern plants--emphasizing gendered portrayals of women's strike actions--from the 1930s through the 1960s. The book pays close attention to how Jim Crow employment policies benefited white women and how, in the wake of civil rights agitation and legislation in the 1960s, racial integration facilitated union success. It also examines the history of unionists' appeals to women consumers through union label and boycott campaigns, covering in detail the Farah boycott of the early 1970s and the famous Look for the Union Label campaign sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) (p. 131). The study concludes by considering the recent effects of globalization, which in some ways mirrored the industry's earlier southward turn. Striking Beauties is valuable in several respects. Haberland does an admirable job of exploring racial tensions within the southern apparel workforce and showing how greater racial and ethnic diversity in the 1960s and 1970s pushed the major unions (the ILGWU and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) toward greater inclusivity, although some forms of segregation persisted even in integrated plants. …