The Southern Key - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Southern Key write by Michael Goldfield. This book was released on 2020. The Southern Key available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The South is today, as it always has been, the key to understanding American society, its politics, its constitutional anomalies and government structure, its culture, its social relations, its music and literature, its media focus, its blind spots, and virtually everything else. The Golden Key argues that much of what is important in American politics and society today was largely shaped by the successes and failures of the labor movements of the 1930s and 1940s, and most notably the failures of southern labor organizing during this period. It also argues that these failures, despite some important successes in organizing interracial unions, left the South (and consequentially much of the rest of the United States as well) racially backward and open to right-wing demagoguery. These failures have led to a nationwide decline in unionization, growing economic inequality, and overall failures to confront white supremacy head on. In an in-depth look at unexamined archival material and detailed data, The Golden key challenges established historiography, both telling a tale of race, radicalism, and betrayal and arguing that the outcome was not at all predetermined"--
The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States
The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States write by Michael Goldfield. This book was released on 1989-05-15. The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Goldfield provides a statistical and historical examination of the erosion of unionization in the private sector. Based on National Labor Relations Board data, which serve as an accurate measure of union growth in the private sector, he argues that standard explanations for union decline--structural, industrial, occupational, demographic, and geographic changes--are insupportable or erroneous. He makes a compelling case that the decline is due to changing class relationships, determined corporate anti-unionism, lack of realism on the part of the unions, and a public view of unions as too powerful and untrustworthy. Goldfield maintains that by understanding the decline of U.S. labor unions it is possible to understand the conditions necessary for their rebirth and resurgence. ISBN 0-226-30102-8: $27.50.
The Indicted South
The Indicted South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indicted South write by Angie Maxwell. This book was released on 2014-04-15. The Indicted South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners' responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped the region's political and cultural conservatism. Maxwell exposes the way the perception of regional inferiority confronted all types of southerners, focusing on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and the birth of the anti-evolution movement; the publication of I'll Take My Stand and the turn to New Criticism by the Southern Agrarians; and Virginia's campaign of Massive Resistance and Interposition in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Tracing the effects of media scrutiny and the ridicule that characterized national discourse in each of these cases, Maxwell reveals the reactionary responses that linked modern southern whiteness with anti-elitism, states' rights, fundamentalism, and majoritarianism.
The Resilience of Southern Identity
The Resilience of Southern Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Resilience of Southern Identity write by Christopher A. Cooper. This book was released on 2017-02-01. The Resilience of Southern Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded--chain restaurants have replaced mom-and-pop diners, and the interstate highway system connects the region to the rest of the country. Given all of these changes, many have argued that southern identity is fading. But here, Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts show how these changes have allowed for new types of southern identity to emerge. For some, identification with the South has become more about a connection to the region's folkways or to place than about policy or ideology. For others, the contemporary South is all of those things at once--a place where many modern-day southerners navigate the region's confusing and omnipresent history. Regardless of how individuals see the South, this study argues that the region's drastic political, racial, and cultural changes have not lessened the importance of southern identity but have played a key role in keeping regional identification relevant in the twenty-first century.
Unlocking V.O. Key Jr.
Unlocking V.O. Key Jr. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unlocking V.O. Key Jr. write by Angie Maxwell. This book was released on 2011-05-01. Unlocking V.O. Key Jr. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern perspectives on a twentieth-century classic
