The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas /

"Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) has long fascinated historians, who have emphasized its biracial membership and the socialist convictions of its leaders, while attributing its demise to external factors, such as the mechanizatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, James D., Jr (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union.
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union > History.
Tenant farmers.
Agricultural laborers > Labor unions.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travailleurs agricoles > Syndicats > Arkansas > Histoire.
Metayers > Arkansas > Histoire.
Agricultural laborers > Labor unions > Arkansas > History.
Tenant farmers > Arkansas > History.
Arkansas.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) has long fascinated historians, who have emphasized its biracial membership and the socialist convictions of its leaders, while attributing its demise to external factors, such as the mechanization of agriculture, the repression of wealthy planters, and the indifference of New Dealers. However, as James Ross notes in this compelling revisionist history, such accounts have largely ignored the perspective of the actual sharecroppers and other tenant farmers who made up the union's rank and file"--
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations ;
ISBN:9781621903536

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