Description |
1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Capitalism -- North Carolina -- History
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Industries -- North Carolina -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Capitalism
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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Industries
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SUBJECT |
North Carolina -- Economic conditions
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North Carolina -- Economic policy
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North Carolina
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822382928 |
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082238292X |
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1282919946 |
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9781282919945 |
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9786612919947 |
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6612919949 |
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