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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811571103321

Autore

Cobb James C (James Charles), <1947->

Titolo

Industrialization and Southern society, 1877-1984 / / James C. Cobb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2004

©1984

ISBN

0-8131-8419-3

0-8131-9109-2

0-8131-4866-9

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

New Perspectives on the South

Disciplina

303.4/4

Soggetti

Industrialization - Southern States - History

Industrial promotion - Southern States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Shaping of Southern Growth; 2. The Twentieth-Century South and the Campaign for New Industry; 3. The Sunbelt South; 4. Life and Labor in the Industrializing South; 5. Industrial Development and Reform in the Post-World War II South; 6. Natural and Environmental Resources and Industrial Development; 7. Why the New South Never Became the North: A Summary; Bibliographic Note; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1880's, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty that engulfed the postbellum South. In the long run, however, as James C. Cobb demonstrates in this illuminating book, industrial development left much of the South's poverty unrelieved and often reinforced rather than undermined its conservative social and political philosophy. The exploitation of the South's resources, largely by interests from outside the region, was not only perpetuated but in many ways strengthened as industrialization proceeded. The 20th Century brought increasing competition