Description: These essays show that professed forces of change and modernization in the South--writers, photographers, activists, social scientists, and policymakers--often subtly upheld the structures by which southern labor was being exploited.
Brief description: RICHARD GODDEN is a professor of American history and literature at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Fictions of Labor and Fictions of Capital.
Review Quotes:
For historians of the twentieth-century South, this will likely be an important book, with essays suitable for classroom use as well as for their own research.
--Journal of American History