Old South, New South : revolutions in the southern economy since the Civil War / Gavin Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Gavin, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries.

History.

Southern States--Economic conditions.

Southern States.

Economic conditions.

Industries--Southern States--History.

Physical Description:

x, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

Louisiana paperback edition.

Other Title:

Revolutions in the southern economy since the Civil War

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-309) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

0807120987

9780807120989

OCLC:

36311163