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Author Wood, Phillip J., 1951-

Title Southern capitalism : the political economy of North Carolina, 1880-1980 / Phillip J. Wood
Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in North -- Carolina -- The Relocation of the Cotton Textile Industry, 1895-1939: The Political Economy of the "Stretch-Out" -- Capital, Exploitation, and the State in North Carolina: Theoretical Considerations -- Capital, Exploitation, and the State in North Carolina: From the Civil War to the New Deal and Beyond -- State Economic Development Policy and the Pattern of Postwar Industrialization -- Conclusion: Prospects for the Future
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-267) and index
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Subject Capitalism -- North Carolina -- History
Industries -- North Carolina -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Capitalism
Economic history
Economic policy
Industries
SUBJECT North Carolina -- Economic conditions
North Carolina -- Economic policy
Subject North Carolina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822382928
082238292X
1282919946
9781282919945
9786612919947
6612919949