America's Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial Transformation in Birmingham

ISBN-13: 9780820356273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 292 str.

Bobby M. Wilson; Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Opis

A persuasive exploration of the links between Alabama's slaveholding order and the subsequent industrialization of the state, America's Johannesburg demonstrates that arguments based on classical economics fail to take into account the ways in which racial issues influenced the rise of industrial capitalism.