{"product_id":"old-south-new-south-gavin-wright-9780807120989","title":"Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War","description":"In this provocative and intricate analysis of the postbellum southern economy, Gavin Wright finds in the South's peculiar labor market the answer to the perennial question of why the region remained backward for so long. After the Civil War, Wright explains, the South continued to be a low-wage regional market embedded in a high-wage national economy. He vividly details the origins, workings, and ultimate demise of that distinct system. The post-World War II southern economy, which created today's Sunbelt, Wright shows, is not the result of the evolution of the old system, but the product of a revolution brought on by the New Deal and World War II that shattered the South's stagnant structure and created a genuinely new, thriving order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gavin Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807120987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807120989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.46w x 0.70d","brand":"Gavin Wright","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926288498943,"sku":"9780807120989","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ee710ee1-b6ff-42db-8907-a0c2a207ec4a.jpg?v=1681082240","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/old-south-new-south-gavin-wright-9780807120989","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}