The dispossessed : America's underclasses from the Civil War to the present

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The dispossessed : America's underclasses from the Civil War to the present

Jacqueline Jones

BasicBooks, c1992

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-384) and index

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ISBN 9780465001279

内容説明

The specter of the Northern "underclass" haunts the American imagination. Many books focus on a piece of the problem: either the North or South, blacks or whites, industrial or agricultural workers. This sweeping chronicle of the roots of poverty reveals for the first time the full contours of this American tragedy. In a moving evocation of what it has meant to be down and out in America, prizewinning historian Jacqueline Jones explores the wrenching displacement of millions of rural Americans, both blacks and whites, beginning after the Civil War and following their great trek into the industrial centers and urban ghettos of the North. Through the stories of ordinary families, "The Dispossessed" systematically dismantles the myth of the "culture of poverty", challenging the central tenets of the underclass debate. Jones shows how families struggled mightily on cotton plantations, in coal mining camps, and in factory towns to piece together a livelihood and free themselves from dependency.

目次

  • Part 1 The southern "labour question" in black and white during the Civil War era, 1860 to 1870: at the crossroads of freedom - black field workers
  • the pride of race and its limits - white field workers. Part 2 The emergence of a rural proletariat in the south, 1870 to 1990: the family economy of rural southerners, 1870 to 1930
  • shifting and "shiftlessness" - annual plantation turnover, 1870 to 1930
  • bound and free black and white labourers between field and factory - the south's rural non-agricultural sector, 1875 to 1930
  • "A golden Florida made ready for them too" - east coast migratory labourers, 1890 to 1990. Part 3 The southern diaspora in the twentieth century: separate ways - deep south black and Appalachian white migrants to the midwest
  • ghettos and the lack of them - southern migrants in the midwest. Part 4 Postmodern poverty in America: American "underclasses" in the late 20th century.
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780465016747

内容説明

The specter of the Northern "underclass" haunts the American imagination. Many books focus on a piece of the problem: either the North or South, blacks or whites, industrial or agricultural workers. This chronicle of the roots of poverty reveals the full contours of this American tragedy. In an evocation of what it has meant to be down and out in America, the historian Jacqueline Jones explores the wrenching displacement of millions of rural Americans, both blacks and whites, beginning after the Civil War, and following their great trek into the industrial centers and urban ghettos of the North. Through the stories of ordinary families, "The Dispossessed" systematically dismantles the myth of the "culture of poverty", challenging the central tenets of the underclass debate. Jones shows how families struggled mightily on cotton plantations, in coal mining camps and in factory towns to piece together a livelihood and free themselves from dependency. Jacqueline Jones was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Bancroft Prize for "Labor of love, Labor of Sorrow".

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