03568nam 2200685Ia 450 991078949520332120230725052927.00-8130-3846-40-8130-4294-1(CKB)3450000000003135(EBL)1023601(OCoLC)811505328(SSID)ssj0000628453(PQKBManifestationID)12226373(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628453(PQKBWorkID)10711023(PQKB)11124463(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035380(MiAaPQ)EBC1023601(OCoLC)801845833(MdBmJHUP)muse22371(Au-PeEL)EBL1023601(CaPaEBR)ebr10603015(CaONFJC)MIL513122(EXLCZ)99345000000000313520110106d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLooking south[electronic resource] race, gender, and the transformation of labor from reconstruction to globalization /Mary E. Frederickson ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. MillerGainesville, FL University Press of Floridac20111 online resource (329 p.)Southern DissentDescription based upon print version of record.0-8130-3603-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and index.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.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 briSouthern DissentLabor marketSouthern StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansEmploymentSouthern StatesHistoryWomenEmploymentSouthern StatesHistoryReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)GlobalizationEconomic aspectsLabor marketHistory.African AmericansEmploymentHistory.WomenEmploymentHistory.Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)GlobalizationEconomic aspects.331.10975Frederickson Mary E864480MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789495203321Looking south3722681UNINA