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