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The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South)
James J. Lorence
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Description for The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South)
Hardcover. In Georgia during the Great Depression, jobless workers united with the urban poor, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In a collective effort that cut across race and class boundaries, they confronted an unresponsive political and social system and helped shape government policies. This book lets us understand the movement. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JJG; HBTB; JPWF; KCFM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
In Georgia during the Great Depression, jobless workers united with the urban poor, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In a collective effort that cut across race and class boundaries, they confronted an unresponsive political and social system and helped shape government policies. James J. Lorence adds significantly to our understanding of this movement, which took place far from the northeastern and midwestern sites we commonly associate with Depression-era labor struggles.
Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly accessible records of the Communist Party of the United States, Lorence details interactions between various institutional and grassroots players, including organized labor, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820330457
SKU
V9780820330457
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About James J. Lorence
JAMES J. LORENCE (1937–2012) was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Eminent Scholar of History at Gainesville State College. His books include A Hard Journey, Screening America, and The Suppression of "Salt of the Earth".
Reviews for The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South)
James J. Lorence has scoured numerous archives and mined myriad sources to unearth the history of the unemployed movement in Georgia. Well written and deeply researched, The Unemployed People's Movement makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on the 'Southern Front' of social activism and radical political culture during the New Deal years.
author of Twice the Work ... Read more
While this text contributes to an important national story, it also highlights the importance of local and regional factors and variations. It adds to the growing, albeit piecemeal, literature on the pre–World War II southern labor movement by demonstrating not only its existence and modest successes but also its indigenous origin. . . . Given current U.S. unemployment rates, the story of this book could speak to the growing number of organizers and policy makers looking to again harness the grassroots. Beset by racial divisions and official hostility, Georgia's workers nonetheless effectively mobilized in a range of organizations on behalf of radical politics to achieve far more than most would have expected. Richly detailed with examples from former Soviet archives and convincingly argued, The Unemployed People's Movement makes readers rethink their ideas about southern workers and the possibilities for social change. This is a book for everyone seriously interested in southern, labor, and radical history.
coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left
Well-researched, well-written, and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of reform movements and social change in the twentieth-century South. Lorence gives a rich and honest portrait of the complexity, contradictions, struggles, achievements, and limitations of the unemployed people’s movement . . . Lorence’s monograph is a remarkable feat of research, a model case study of a movement deserving careful historical attention. Show Less
author of Twice the Work ... Read more
While this text contributes to an important national story, it also highlights the importance of local and regional factors and variations. It adds to the growing, albeit piecemeal, literature on the pre–World War II southern labor movement by demonstrating not only its existence and modest successes but also its indigenous origin. . . . Given current U.S. unemployment rates, the story of this book could speak to the growing number of organizers and policy makers looking to again harness the grassroots. Beset by racial divisions and official hostility, Georgia's workers nonetheless effectively mobilized in a range of organizations on behalf of radical politics to achieve far more than most would have expected. Richly detailed with examples from former Soviet archives and convincingly argued, The Unemployed People's Movement makes readers rethink their ideas about southern workers and the possibilities for social change. This is a book for everyone seriously interested in southern, labor, and radical history.
coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left
Well-researched, well-written, and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of reform movements and social change in the twentieth-century South. Lorence gives a rich and honest portrait of the complexity, contradictions, struggles, achievements, and limitations of the unemployed people’s movement . . . Lorence’s monograph is a remarkable feat of research, a model case study of a movement deserving careful historical attention. Show Less