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The Southern Key - Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Paperback)
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The Southern Key - Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Paperback)
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A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal
era. The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American
political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael
Goldfield argues, lies in the contests between labor and capital in
the American South during the 1930s and 1940s. Labor agitation and
unionization efforts in the South in the New Deal era were
extensive and bitterly fought, and ranged across all of the major
industries of the region. In The Southern Key, Goldfield charts the
rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor
organizers struggled so mightily in the region. Drawing from
meticulous and unprecedented archival material and detailed data on
four core industries-textiles, timber, coal mining, and steel-he
argues that much of what is important in American politics and
society today was largely shaped by the successes and failures of
the labor movements of the 1930s and 1940s. Most notably, Goldfield
shows how the broad-based failure to organize the South during this
period made it what it is today. He contends that this early defeat
for labor unions not only contributed to the exploitation of race
and right-wing demagoguery in the South, but has also led to a
decline in unionization, growing economic inequality, and an
inability to confront and dismantle white supremacy throughout the
US. A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New
Deal era, The Southern Key challenges the established
historiography to tell a tale of race, radicalism, and betrayal
that will reshape our understanding of why America developed so
differently from other advanced industrial nations over the course
of the last century.
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