Description: This volume examines the intersection of labor history and migration studies to explain the South's dynamism in both urban and rural settings in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Brief description: Robert Cassanello, associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida, is the author of To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville.
Review Quotes:
"Offers a worthwhile look at migration, race, and labor in the modern South."--Journal of American History
"Give[s] the reader a glimpse into the complex interactions among government policy, corporate strategy to maximize profits, and the actions and migration patterns of workers, both individually and collectively in a region undergoing rapid change."--Labor
"Robert Cassanello and Colin J. Davis have done an outstanding job of selecting and organizing these essays. The works themselves cover a broad range of topics, places, and methodological approaches, building upon one another in their analyses of changes and continuities in the southern workplace. In doing so, they offer prescient commentary on the region's past, present, and future."--Alabama Review
"The South after 1945 was a very complex region, torn by divisions over race and jobs. Large, impersonal forces, such as corporations and globalization, not to mention the ever-present issue of race, shaped the South in various ways after World War II, and [these] essays do an excellent job in showing these diverse issues."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society