Abstract: Focuses on how textile workers of Dawson Workers-Owned Cooperative in Georgia have reversed their fortunes and formed their own cooperative. Problems faced by United States textile industry with North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Role played by Marcus Lemacks, president and general manager of Almark Mills, in getting the textile plant back in operation.

　　Subjects: TEXTILE workers; PRODUCER cooperatives; COOPERATIVE societies; GEORGIA; UNITED States; Broadwoven Fabric Mills; LEMACKS, Marcus