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Reconsidering Southern Labor History - Race, Class, and Power (Hardcover)
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Reconsidering Southern Labor History - Race, Class, and Power (Hardcover)
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The American Dream of reaching success through sheer sweat and
determination rings false for countless members of today's working
class. This volume shows that many of the difficulties facing
modern laborers have deep roots in the history of worker
exploitation in the South. Contributors make the case that the
problems that have long beset southern labor, including the legacy
of slavery, low wages, lack of collective bargaining rights, and
repression of organized unions, have become the problems of workers
across the United States. Spanning nearly all of U.S. history, from
the eighteenth century to the present, the essays in this
collection range from West Virginia to Florida to Texas. They
examine such topics as vagrancy laws in the Early Republic, inmate
labor at state penitentiaries, mine workers and union membership,
pesticide exposure among farmworkers, labor activism during the
civil rights movement, and foreign-owned auto factories in the
rural South. They distinguish between different struggles
experienced by women and men, as well as by African American,
Latino, and white workers. The broad chronological sweep and
comprehensive nature of Reconsidering Southern Labor History set
this volume apart from any other collection on the topic in the
past forty years. Presenting the latest trends in the study of the
working-class South by a new generation of scholars, this volume is
a surprising revelation of the historical forces behind the labor
inequalities inherent today.
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