Looking south : race, gender, and the transformation of labor from reconstruction to globalization / Mary E. Frederickson ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frederickson, Mary E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--Southern States--History.

Labor market.

African Americans--Employment--Southern States--History.

African Americans.

Women--Employment--Southern States--History.

Women.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Women--Employment.

History.

African Americans--Employment.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2011]

Summary:

Eight stand-alone essays by Frederickson (history, Miami U.) explore the labor history of the American south between the transformation of the labor system with the advent of industrialization at the end of the 19th century through to the beginning of the 21st century and the impacts of globalization. The essays address issues of race, class, and gender and highlight the role of dissent in shaping the labor systems of the New South. Specific topics include interracial labor organizing and labor actions in New Orleans and their relationship to the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (the origin of the "separate but equal" doctrine overturned later in Brown v. Board of Education), reform strategies adopted by Black and white women on labor and other issues, representations of southern women in labor history, the theory and practice developed by organized labor in their efforts to organized the textile industry during the Great Depression, race and patterns of textile employment across the 20th century, the impact of the Latino immigration wave to the South that came in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the export of the New South labor paradigm to the Global South. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction : labor transformation and networks of resistance

Labor, race, and Homer Plessy's freedom claim

Transformation and resistance : a war of images in the post-Plessy south

"I got so mad, I just had to get something off my chest" : the contested terrain of women's organizations in the American south

Beyond heroines and girl strikers : gender and organized labor in the south

Labor looks south : theory and practice in southern textile organizing

"Living in two worlds" : civil rights and southern textiles

Transformation and resistance in the nueva new south

Back to the future : mapping workers across the global south

Coda : southern workers on the world stage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813036038

0813036038

OCLC:

666240016