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Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State - Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965 (Paperback)
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Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State - Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965 (Paperback)
Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
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Using institutional economics, Professors Alston and Ferrie show
how paternalism in Southern agriculture helped shape the growth of
the American welfare state in the hundred years following the Civil
War. It was an integral part of agricultural contracts prior to
mechanization. Paternalism involved the exchange of 'good and
faithful' labour services for a variety of in-kind services, most
notably protection from physical violence. The Southern landed
elite valued paternalism because it reduced monitoring costs and
turnover. Workers valued paternalism because of the lack of civil
rights. In order to maintain the value of paternalism to their
workers, the agricultural interests needed to prevent meddling from
the federal government, which they accomplished through their
disproportionate political power. Only the advent of mechanization
and complementary technology in the late 1950s and early 1960s
finally reduced the desire of Southern agricultural interests to
fight the expansion of federal welfare programmes.
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