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This collection of fifteen essays presents the views of some of the
world's most distinguished economists on what is emerging as the
central topic of the twenty-first century: long-term economic
growth.
This collection of fifteen essays presents the views of some of the
world's most distinguished economists on what is emerging as the
central topic of the twenty-first century: long-term economic
growth.
Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History
Association A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year The
civil rights movement was also a struggle for economic justice, one
that until now has not had its own history. Sharing the Prize
demonstrates the significant material gains black southerners
made-in improved job opportunities, quality of education, and
health care-from the 1960s to the 1970s and beyond. Because black
advances did not come at the expense of southern whites, Gavin
Wright argues, the civil rights struggle was that rarest of social
revolutions: one that benefits both sides. "Wright argues that
government action spurred by the civil-rights movement corrected a
misfiring market, generating large economic gains that private
companies had been unable to seize on their own." -The Economist
"Written...with the care and imagination [Wright] displayed in his
superb work on slavery and the southern economy since the Civil
War, this excellent economic history offers the best empirical
account to date of the effects the civil rights revolution had on
southern labor markets, schools, and other important
institutions...With much of the nation persuaded that a post-racial
age has begun, Wright's analytical history...takes on fresh
urgency." -Ira Katznelson, New York Review of Books
Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of
regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before
the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how
World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture,
and politics of the South.From perspectives grounded in geography,
law, history, sociology, and economics, several contributors look
at southern industrial sectors old and new: aircraft and defense,
cotton textiles, timber and pulp, carpeting, oil refining and
petrochemicals, and automobiles. One essay challenges the
perception that southern industrial growth was spurred by a
disproportionate share of federal investment during and after the
war. In covering the variety of technological, managerial, and
spatial transitions brought about by the South's "second wave" of
industrialization, the case studies also identify a set of themes
crucial to understanding regional dynamics: investment and
development; workforce training; planning, cost-containment, and
environmental concerns; equal employment opportunities;
rural-to-urban shifts and the decay of local economies
entrepreneurism; and coordination of supply, service, and
manufacturing processes. From boardroom to factory floor, the
variety of perspectives in The Second Wave will significantly widen
our understanding of the dramatic reshaping of the region in the
decades after 1940.
Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a
big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a
familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and new. Charles B.
Dew, Journal of Interdisciplinary History A stunning
reinterpretation of southern economic history and what is perhaps
the most important book in the field since Time on the Cross. . . .
I frequently found myself forced to rethink long-held positions.
Russell R. Menard, Civil War History Through an analysis of slavery
as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative
look at the economic divergence between North and South in the
antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of
work organization the aspect that has dominated historical debates
and slavery as a set of property rights. Slave-based commerce
remained central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic
economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of
organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on
sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on
economically viable terms. Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe
Professor in American Economic History at Stanford University and
the author of The Political Economy of the Cotton South and Old
South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the
Civil War, winner of the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award of
the Southern Historical Association. He served as president of the
Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society.
In this provocative and intricate analysis of the postbellum
southern economy, Gavin Wright finds in the South's peculiar labor
market the answer to the perennial question of why the region
remained backward for so long. After the Civil War, Wright
explains, the South continued to be a low-wage regional market
embedded in a high-wage national economy. He vividly details the
origins, workings, and ultimate demise of that distinct system. The
post-World War II southern economy, which created today's Sunbelt,
Wright shows, is not the result of the evolution of the old system,
but the product of a revolution brought on by the New Deal and
World War II that shattered the South's stagnant structure and
created a genuinely new, thriving order.
"When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of
1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life's work."
With these words, Harry Hudson, the first African American
supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft's Georgia facility, begins his
account of a thirty-six-year career that spanned the postwar civil
rights movement and the Cold War. Hudson was not a civil rights
activist, yet he knew he was helping to break down racial barriers
that had long confined African Americans to lower-skilled,
nonsupervisory jobs. His previously unpublished memoir is an inside
account of both the racial integration of corporate America and the
struggles common to anyone climbing the postwar corporate ladder.
At Lockheed-Georgia, Hudson went on to become the first black
supervisor to manage an integrated crew and then the first black
purchasing agent. There were other "firsts" along the path to these
achievements, and Working for Equality is rich in details of
Hudson's work on the assembly line and in the back office. In both
circumstances, he contended with being not only a black man but a
light-skinned black man as he dealt with production goals,
personnel disputes, and other workday challenges. Randall Patton's
introduction places Hudson's story within the broader struggle of
workplace desegregation in America. Although Hudson is frank about
his experiences in a predominantly white workforce, Patton notes
that he remained "an organization man" who "expressed pride in his
contributions to Lockheed [and] the nation's defense effort."
Long the standard source for quantitative indicators of American
history, a new edition of Historical Statistics of the United
States is something that reference librarians, historians, and
social scientists have long awaited. Not since the Bicentennial
Edition was published in 1975 has new data and material been
available. Available online for the first time, this comprehensive
and thoroughly revised edition reflects thirty years of information
and new scholarship, providing a comprehensive compendium of
statistics from over 1,000 sources, recording every aspect of the
history of the United States. The electronic edition has been
designed to give users a variety of means to search and navigate
the vast amount of data available. Users will be able to graph
individual tables or to combine data from different tables into
'custom tables' and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and
other applications. Visit www.cambridge.org/historicalstats for
further information and to discover more
The impact of cotton and slavery in the nineteenth century American
South was so dramatic and enduring that neither the region nor the
nation has yet escaped from the influence of that era of regional
prominence.
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