Economy and Society in the Modern South – serie
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Second Wave
Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s
Inbunden, 2001
887 kr
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Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South.From …
Labor in the Modern South
Inbunden, 2001
938 kr
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Embracing but moving beyond the traditional concerns of labor history, these nine original essays give a voice to workers underrepresented in the scholarship on labor in the twentieth-century South.Covering locales as diverse as Atlanta, Richmond, Tampa, and Houston, the essays encompass issues …
Renewing Birmingham
Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979
Av Christopher MacGregor Scribner
Inbunden, 2002
966 kr
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Renewing Birmingham is the first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Christopher MacGregor Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham's transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of …
Victory at Home
Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II
Häftad, 2003
527 kr
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Victory at Home is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labor force within the commission's province. Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded …
Carpet Capital
The Rise of a New South Industry
Häftad, 2003
398 kr
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After World War II, the carpet industry came to be identified with the Dalton region of northwest Georgia. Here, entrepreneurs hit upon a new technology called tufting, which enabled them to take control of this important segment of America’s textile industry, previously dominated by woven-wool …
Politics of Whiteness
Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South
Häftad, 2004
595 kr
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The Politics of Whiteness presents the first sustained analysis of white racial identity among workers in what was the South’s largest industry for much of the twentieth century: textiles. Michelle Brattain, who grounds her work in a study of Rome, Georgia, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, …
Victory at Home
Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II
Inbunden, 2017
1467 kr
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Victory at Home is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labor force within the commission's province. Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded …
Second Wave
Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s
Häftad, 2019
608 kr
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Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South.From …
