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The American Peasantry - Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995, A Study in Political Economy (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,015
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The American Peasantry - Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995, A Study in Political Economy (Hardcover, New)

Ronald E. Seavoy

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A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial agriculture. About equal numbers of black and white sharecroppers chose to practice subsistence cultivation in order to minimize agricultural labor. The study begins with pre-Civil War slave plantations and the landless white peasants who migrated to North America to escape full-time paid labor in Britain. Seavoy then describes and analyzes the operation of the postbellum sharecrop system and related Back Caste System; the different origins of southern and northern Populism; the massive displacement of southern peasants (after 1950) when cotton cultivation was fully mechanized, and how the voluntary joblessness of the urban underclass has been perpetuated by the welfare entitlements of the Great Society.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 1998
First published: November 1998
Authors: Ronald E. Seavoy
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 616
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27511-1
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy
Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology
Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-313-27511-4
Barcode: 9780313275111

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