Southern Capitalism : The Political Economy of North Carolina, 1880-1980 /
Southern Capitalism challenges prevailing views of Southern development by arguing that the persisting peculiarities of the Southern economy-such as low wages and high poverty rates-have not resulted from barriers to capitalist development, nor from the lingering influence of planter values. Wood ar...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1986.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Southern Capitalism challenges prevailing views of Southern development by arguing that the persisting peculiarities of the Southern economy-such as low wages and high poverty rates-have not resulted from barriers to capitalist development, nor from the lingering influence of planter values. Wood argues that these peculiarities can instead be best understood as the consequence of a strategy of capitalist development, based on the creation and preservation of social conditions and relations conducive to the above-average exploitation of labor by capital. focusing on the evolving r. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (287 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780822382928 |