{"product_id":"the-american-peasantry-southern-agricultural-labor-and-its-legacy-1850-1995-a-study-in-political-economy-hardcover","title":"The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995, a Study in Political Economy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRonald E. Seavoy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial agriculture. About equal numbers of black and white sharecroppers chose to practice subsistence cultivation in order to minimize agricultural labor. The study begins with pre-Civil War slave plantations and the landless white peasants who migrated to North America to escape full-time paid labor in Britain. Seavoy then describes and analyzes the operation of the postbellum sharecrop system and related Back Caste System; the different origins of southern and northern Populism; the massive displacement of southern peasants (after 1950) when cotton cultivation was fully mechanized, and how the voluntary joblessness of the urban underclass has been perpetuated by the welfare entitlements of the Great Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRONALD E. SEAVOY is with the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington. Previous books by the author include \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784-1855\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood, 1982), \u003ci\u003eFamine in Peasant Societies\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood, 1986), and \u003ci\u003eFamine in East Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood, 1989).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 616\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.33 x 9.53 x 6.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44827231846444,"sku":"9780313275111","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/3o64q8tgby9780313275111.webp?v=1759278273","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/the-american-peasantry-southern-agricultural-labor-and-its-legacy-1850-1995-a-study-in-political-economy-hardcover","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}