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The American Peasantry
Ronald E. Seavoy
其他書名
Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995, A Study in Political Economy
出版Bloomsbury Academic, 1998-11-30
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN03132751149780313275111
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1WGGAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial agriculture. About equal numbers of black and white sharecroppers chose to practice subsistence cultivation in order to minimize agricultural labor. The study begins with pre-Civil War slave plantations and the landless white peasants who migrated to North America to escape full-time paid labor in Britain. Seavoy then describes and analyzes the operation of the postbellum sharecrop system and related Back Caste System; the different origins of southern and northern Populism; the massive displacement of southern peasants (after 1950) when cotton cultivation was fully mechanized, and how the voluntary joblessness of the urban underclass has been perpetuated by the welfare entitlements of the Great Society.