Record details

• ISBN: 0465001270 :
• ISBN: 9780465001279
• Physical Description: xiii, 399 p. ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

At the crossroads of freedom : black field workers -- Pride of race and its limits : white field workers -- Family economy of rural southerners, 1870 to 1930 -- Shifting and "Shiftlessness" : annual plantation turnover 1870 to 1930 -- Bound and free black and white laborers between field and factory : the South's rural nonagricultural sector, 1875-1930 -- "Golden Florida made ready for them too" : East coast migratory laborers, 1890-1990 -- Separate ways : deep South Black and Appalachian White migrants to the midwest -- Ghettos and the lack of them : southern migrants in the midwest -- American "Underclasses" in the late Twentieth Century.

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African Americans > Economic conditions.
Rural poor > Southern States > History.
Southern States > Rural conditions.
Pobreza rural > Estados del Sur, EE.UU.
Estados del Sur, EE.UU. > Condiciones rurales
Armoede.