Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Abstrak
Across time and place, each new generation of southern workers has developed forms of resistance and organization to counter industry’s relentless search for cheap labor and move forward the struggle for economic justice. This essay begins with a visit to a Central Asian textile mill where workers in Margilan, Uzbekistan weave cloth on cast-iron “New South” looms from the Carolinas. Transported from one southern space to another, the history of these looms and the diverse groups of workers who have run them tells the story of how the New South paradigm of low wages, anti-unionism, and state support for manufacturers became the archetype for labor relations in twentieth-century America and the model for transforming the Global South into another “New South.” Photographs from the New and Global Souths taken during the century between 1906 and 2006 bring to life the complex historical landscape of the American South and its role in shaping the twenty-first century world in which we live.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Mary E. Frederickson
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2011
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.18737/M7PW3V
- Akses
- Open Access ✓