| Description |
xiii, 399 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-384) and index. |
| Contents |
At the crossroads of freedom : black field workers -- Pride of race and its limits : white field workers -- Family economy of rural southerners, 1870 to 1930 -- Shifting and "Shiftlessness" : annual plantation turnover 1870 to 1930 -- Bound and free black and white laborers between field and factory : the South's rural nonagricultural sector, 1875-1930 -- "Golden Florida made ready for them too" : East coast migratory laborers, 1890-1990 -- Separate ways : deep South Black and Appalachian White migrants to the midwest -- Ghettos and the lack of them : southern migrants in the midwest -- American "Underclasses" in the late Twentieth Century. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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Rural poor -- Southern States -- History.
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Southern States -- Rural conditions.
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| ISBN |
046501674X (pbk.) |
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0465001270 : $25.00 ($33.50 Can.) |
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