Reconsidering southern labor history : race, class, and power / edited by Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Hild, Matthew, editor.

Merritt, Keri Leigh, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Employment.

History.

Working class.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Southern States.

Social conditions.

Working class--Southern States--History.

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

African Americans.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2018]

Summary:

Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power presents fresh and original scholarship that reexamines and reinterprets the field. Collectively, these essays cover virtually the entire span of United States history, from the early national period following the American Revolution through the twenty-first century. The essays that examine the antebellum South will demonstrate that the problems of southern labor in that era still carry relevance in the twenty-first century and merit scholars' attention.

Contents:

Introduction / Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt

Section 1. The early republic and the Old South

Origins of the Charleston Mechanic Society: white labor activism and slave competition in Charleston, South Carolina in the early national era / Thomas Brown

"Vagrant negroes": the policing of labor and mobility in the upper south in the early republic / Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan

Origins of the prison industrial complex: inmate labor in the deep south, 1817-1865 / Brett J. Derbes

To carry that burden: the Texas Cart War and the place of Mexican laborers in the southern landscape, 1854-1857 / Maria Angela Diaz

Section 2. Reconstruction and the gilded age

The promise of free labor: Carl Schurz and Republican conceptions of labor within the reconstruction south / Stuart MacKay

Haskins v. Royster and the liberty to be unfree: reconstructing North Carolina labor law / Linda A. Tvrdy

Unfaithful followers: rethinking southern non-unionism in the late nineteenth century / Dana M. Caldemeyer

Southern labor and the lure of populism: workers and power in North Carolina / Deborah Beckel

The Appalachian "gunmen of capitalism" / T.R.C. Hutton

Section 3. The twentieth century and civil rights

Rooted: black railroad shopmen, the 1922 strike, and southern civil rights struggles / Theresa A. Case

African American and Latino workers in the age of industrial agriculture / Erin L. Conlin

The Freedom Labor Union: economic justice and the civil rights movement in Mississippi / Michael Sistrom

"A threshold moment": public sector organizing and civil rights unionism in the postwar south / Joseph E. Hower

Section 4. The modern south

Pens, planes, and politics: how race and labor practices shaped postwar Atlanta / Joseph M. Thompson

Beyond boosterism: Fort Smith and the creation of a conservative economic culture / Adam Carson

From "the chosen" to the precariat: southern workers in foreign-owned factories since the 1980s / David M. Anderson & Andrew C. McKevitt

Section 5. Concluding thoughts

The historiographies of the labor and civil rights movements: at the intersection of parallel lines / Alan Draper

So goes the nation: southern antecedents and the future of work / Bethany Moreton

Why labor history still matters / Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780813056975

0813056977

OCLC:

1006471127