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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wood, Phillip J., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1986.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (287 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822382928