| Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War Contributor(s): Wright, Gavin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807120987 ISBN-13: 9780807120989 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 330.975 |
| LCCN: 97197547 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.46" W x 8.44" (0.88 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |