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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789495203321

Autore

Frederickson Mary E

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, FL, : University Press of Florida, c2011

ISBN

0-8130-3846-4

0-8130-4294-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Southern Dissent

Disciplina

331.10975

Soggetti

Labor market - Southern States - History

African Americans - Employment - Southern States - History

Women - Employment - Southern States - History

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

Globalization - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, and state-supported industries that marked the creation of the New South and now the Global South.  Workers in



the contemporary Global South--those nations of Central and Latin America, most of Asia, and Africa--live and work within a model of industrial development that materialized in the red bri