Looking South

Mary E. Frederickson’s Looking South includes a range of source materials, as well as oral histories, in its insightful analysis of southern dissent and labor resistance. Grouped into four sections, the book’s eight essays chronicle waves of industrialization and deindustrialization and worker resistance to the human costs of those waves. Part 1, “Claiming Freedom,” looks at African American battles for social and economic space in the aftermath of slavery. Part 2, “Women and Dissent,” focuses on racially and economically diverse women who put their imprimatur on the New South, at times conforming to traditional gender roles to gain collective bargaining power. Part 3, “Labor Rights to Civil Rights,” identifies regional tensions and strategies in American union organizing and efforts to break down racial barriers. Part 4, “From the New South to the Global South,” probes the consequences of globalization for the South since 1980, including immigration, foreign investment, and deindustrialization

Bargaining power · Deindustrialization · Development economics · Dissent · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Immigration · Industrialisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law