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Radical protest and social structure : the Southern Farmers' Alliance and cotton tenancy, 1880-1890 /
Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890 provides an analysis of the occurrence of protest, its growth, and demise through the study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance, the largest and most radical component of American Populism. The...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
1976.
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| Colección: | Studies in social discontinuity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southem Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. Tenancy, Southern Politics, and the Spiral of Agrarian Protest; PART I: THE ONE-CROP COTTON TENANCY SYSTEM; Chapter 2. Basic Tenancy Relationships; The Basic Tenant
- Landlord Relationship; The Merchant and the Crop Lien; Chapter 3. The Tenancy System; The System of Supply and Credit; The System of Marketing; Chapter 4. The Dynamics of Change in Southern Farm Tenancy; The Landlord and the Merchant.
- Yeoman and TenantFrom Tenant to Laborer; Chapter 5. Cotton Tenancy, Farmer Immiseration, and the Reemergence of the Planter Aristocracy; Cotton Domination of Southern Agriculture; Farmer Insolvency and the True Extent of Tenancy; The ''New"" Landlord Class; PART II: AN ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN FARMERS' ALLIANCE; Chapter 6. Growth and Merger; Early Growth and Merger; The Farmers' Associations; The Merger of the Alliance and the Wheel; Organizational History, Organizational Structure, Social Class, and Oligarchy; Chapter 7. Structure and Structural Tensionwithin the Alliance.
- Alliance OrganizationThe Social Origins of Leadership and Membership; Newspapers and the Leadership-Membership Contradiction; Financing the Alliance; The Farmers' Alliance and the Southern Tenant Farming System; PART III: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS; Chapter 8. Defining the Farmer's Alliance; Chapter 9. The Parameters of Organizational Behavior; Rationality and Irrationality; The Role of the Social Structure in the Behavior of Social Movements; Structured Ignorance; Chapter 10. The Determinants of Organized Protest-Part 1; The Class Makeup of the Organization.
- Internal Structure and Functioning of the OrganizationThe Nature of the Active and Potential Opposition; The Nature of the Artive and Potential Support; Chapter 11. The Determinants of Organized Protest-Part 2; The Structural Position of the Organization's Membership in the Structure to Be Challenged; The Prevailing Analysis of the Situation; The Previous Actions and Their Outcomes; Chapter 12. The Life of Protest Organizations; The Birth and Death of Protest; PART IV: THE PROCESS OF ALLIANCE PROTEST; Chapter 13. Local Economic Action andthe Process of Escalation.
- Chapter 14. The Alliance Exchange: The Ultimate CounterinstitutionChapter 15. The Great Jute Boycott; Chapter 16. The Farmers' Alliance in and around Richmond County, North Carolina; Co-op Buying in Mountain Creek; The Alliance Enters North Carolina; Local Actions and Merchant Counterattack; The Struggle for the Alliance Exchange; The Jute Boycott; The Entry into Politics; Chapter 17. The Logic of the Shift into Politics; Conclusion; Chapter 18. The Legacy of Populism Defeated; Subject Index.