The History Of Industrialization In Alabama
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The History Of Industrialization In Alabama
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Author : Lynda W. Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The History Of Industrialization In Alabama written by Lynda W. Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Alabama categories.
America S Johannesburg
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Author : Bobby M. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2019-12-01
America S Johannesburg written by Bobby M. Wilson and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with Social Science categories.
In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama. During the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham gained national and international attention as a center of activity and unrest during the civil rights movement. Racially motivated bombings of the houses of black families who moved into new neighborhoods or who were politically active during this era were so prevalent that Birmingham earned the nickname “Bombingham.” In this critical analysis of why Birmingham became such a national flashpoint, Bobby M. Wilson argues that Alabama’s path to industrialism differed significantly from that of states in the North and Midwest. True to its antebellum roots, no other industrial city in the United States depended as much on the exploitation of black labor so early in its urban development as Birmingham. A persuasive exploration of the links between Alabama’s slaveholding order and the subsequent industrialization of the state, America’s Johannesburg demonstrates that arguments based on classical economics fail to take into account the ways in which racial issues influenced the rise of industrial capitalism.
Global Perspectives On Industrial Transformation In The American South
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Author : Michele Gillespie
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2005
Global Perspectives On Industrial Transformation In The American South written by Michele Gillespie and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
Covering the late colonial age to World War I and beyond, this collection of essays places the economic history of the American South in an international light by establishing useful comparisons with the larger Atlantic and world economy. In an attempt to dispel long-lasting myths about the South, the essays analyze the economic evolution of the South since the slave era. From this perspective, the conception of a backward, wholly agricultural antebellum South occupied only by wealthy planters, poor whites, and contented slaves has finally given way to one of economic and social dynamism as well as regional prosperity. In a coherent and cohesive progression of subjects, these essays show that the South had been deeply enmeshed in the Atlantic economy since the colonial period and, after the Civil War, retained distinctive needs that caused increasing departure from the course northerners adopted on matters of political economy. This comparative approach also helps explain the motivations behind the political choices made by the South as an eminently export-oriented region. This book shows that the South was not slower to develop with respect to industrialization than either the majority of the northern states, especially in the West, or the countries of Western Europe. In fact, the apparently disappointing performance of the New South's economy appears to be the result of more pervasive and largely uncontrollable trends that affected the national as well as the international economy. Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South makes an important contribution to the economic history of the South and to recent efforts to place American history in a more international context.
The Conquest Of Labor
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Author : Curtis J. Evans
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2014-12-12
The Conquest Of Labor written by Curtis J. Evans and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with History categories.
The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville-the site of his operations-one of the antebellum South's most celebrated manufacturing towns. Based on a rich cache of personal and business records, Curtis J. Evans's study of Daniel Pratt and his "Yankee" town in the heart of the Deep South challenges the conventional portrayal of the South as a premodern region hostile to industrialization and shows that, contrary to current popular thought, the South was not so markedly different from the North.
Industrialization And Southern Society 1877 1984
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Author : James C. Cobb
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-21
Industrialization And Southern Society 1877 1984 written by James C. Cobb and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Business & Economics categories.
In the 1880s, 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 for industry that favored management over labor and exploitation over protection of the environment. Even as the South blossomed into the "Sunbelt" in the late twentieth century, it is clear, Cobb argues, that the region had been unable to follow the path of development taken by the northern industrialized states, and that even an industrialized South has yet the escape the shadow of its deprived past.
A Decade Of Industrial Development In Alabama
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Author : Alabama Power Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959*
A Decade Of Industrial Development In Alabama written by Alabama Power Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959* with Industrialization categories.
Industrial Development And Manufacturing In The Antebellum Gulf South
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Author : Michael S. Frawley
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2019-05-08
Industrial Development And Manufacturing In The Antebellum Gulf South written by Michael S. Frawley and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-08 with History categories.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the region to explain why the Confederacy succumbed to the Union. Even after the cliometric revolution of the 1970s, when historians first began applying statistical analysis to reexamine antebellum manufacturing output, the pervasive belief in the region’s backward-ness prompted many scholars to view slavery, not industry, as the economic engine of the South. In Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South, historian Michael S. Frawley engages a wide variety of sources—including United States census data, which many historians have underutilized when gauging economic growth in the prewar South—to show how industrial development in the region has been systematically minimized by scholars. In doing so, Frawley reconsiders factors related to industrial production in the prewar South, such as the availability of natural resources, transportation, markets, labor, and capital. He contends that the Gulf South was far more industrialized and modern than suggested by census records, economic historians like Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss, and contemporary travel writers such as Frederick Law Olmsted. Frawley situates the prewar South firmly in a varied and widespread industrial context, contesting the assumption that slavery inhibited industry in the region and that this lack of economic diversity ultimately prevented the Confederacy from waging a successful war. Though southern manufacturing firms could not match the output of northern states, Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South proves that such entities had established themselves as vital forces in the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War.
The History Of Alabama S Cities
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Author : Lynda W. Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The History Of Alabama S Cities written by Lynda W. Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Cities and towns categories.
A History Of The Cotton Textile Industry Of Alabama 1809 1950
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Author : Dwight M. Wilhelm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
A History Of The Cotton Textile Industry Of Alabama 1809 1950 written by Dwight M. Wilhelm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Alabama categories.
Organizing Dixie
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Author : Philip Taft
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1981-03-30
Organizing Dixie written by Philip Taft and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-03-30 with Political Science categories.
Alabama has the largest industrial work force in the South. As a consequence, it also has the most significant labor movement in the region, a movement created in the face of an unusual combination of obstacles, yet, as this book shows, by the 1970s organized labor had established itself as a major economic and political force in Alabama.