Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 (Working in the Americas)

Cassanello, Robert (edited) & Davis, Colin J. (edited)

ISBN 10: 0813034035 / ISBN 13: 9780813034034

Published by University Press of Florida, 2009

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207p. Crisp pages unmarked. Boards clean and pointed. Dust jacket included in near fine condition- protected in a scuffed brodart jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 (Working in the Americas)
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813034035
• ISBN 13: 9780813034034
• Binding: Hardcover. 8vo
• Edition: 2nd printing.
• Condition: Near fine.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine.
• Seller catalogs:
  • HISTORY - AMERICAN SOUTH
  • LABOR
  • SOCIOLOGY

About this title

Synopsis

"The best collection available concerning current trends affecting the Southern working class."--Leon Fink, University of Illinois-Chicago

"The essays in this collection raise fundamental questions about development, globalization, and change in the American South and will appeal to a broad array of scholars concerned with the current waves of social and economic change sweeping the nation."--Louis M. Kyriakoudes, University of Southern Mississippi

Over the last forty years, the American South has become very diverse very quickly. New businesses and job opportunities in the region have driven this growth, brought an influx of capital, and attracted residents from other parts of the country and the world. Since World War II, traditionalism in the South has had to live side-by-side with a South embodying internationalism, diversity, and movement.

In this volume, a group of historians, anthropologists, and other social scientists examine the intersection of labor history and migration studies to explain the South's recent dynamism in both urban and rural settings. Under the editorship of Robert Cassanello and Colin Davis, these essays examine the transformation of the Southern workplace since World War II, the impact migration has on workers who don't move, and the corporations and industry that have relocated below the Mason-Dixon line.

About the Author

Robert Cassanello is assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida. Colin J. Davis is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.