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Bezig met laden... A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948door Bryant Simon
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. For history non-fiction this book is well written and reads more like a novel than a dry dull academic work. If you want to understand the American South of today reading this book is of considerable help. It is full of insight and compassion and goes to show that even the hard core anti-labor union South had to become unionized to make progress. This is a historical detail of which they probably would not like to be reminded. ( ) 3719. A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948, by Bryant Simon (read 22 Mar 2003) I have been wanting to read this since I first heard of it over two years ago. It was published in 1988, and examines the political aspirations and efforts of mill workers in South Carolina during the years named. I wanted to learn more of the notorious Coleman Blease, governor of SC from 1911 to 1915 and Senator from 1925 to 1931, a classic Southern demagogue, and it tells of his career but even more interesting was its account of Olin D. Johnston and his chaotic and amazing time as Governor from 1935 to 1939. The book is full of most interesting things, and if I mentioned them all it would take a long time. But I cannot resist telling of Peter Richard Moody, who wrote a poem about millworkers which caused the South Carolina Legislature to order him examined by the State's chief mental expert, who concluded Moody had more sense than the members of the Legislature. This is a most interesting and worthwhile book, the best I've read on its subject. (: geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power. Taking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues--at the polling station, on front porches, and on the shop floor--and examines their political involvement at the local, state, and national levels. He describes the campaign styles and rhetoric of such politicians as Coleman Blease and Olin Johnston (himself a former millhand), who eagerly sought the workers' votes. He draws a detailed picture of mill workers casting ballots, carrying placards, marching on the state capital, writing to lawmakers, and picketing factories. These millhands' politics reflected their public and private thoughts about whiteness and blackness, war and the New Deal, democracy and justice, gender and sexuality, class relations and consumption. Ultimately, the people depicted here are neither romanticized nor dismissed as the stereotypically racist and uneducated "rednecks" found in many accounts of southern politics. Southern workers understood the political and social forces that shaped their lives, argues Simon, and they developed complex political strategies to deal with those forces. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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