In this collection of essays, the authors argue that the chronic economic difficulties of the American South cannot be explained away as resulting from a distin

"By far the most sophisticated treatment of industrial structure and spatial organization in the Southern California manufacturing system. The analysis powerful

Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the an

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 peren

Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the rela