Books in the Economy & Society in the Modern South series

This title contains 9 case studies which look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture and politics of the Southern United States. Industrial sectors covered include: aircraft and defence; cotton textiles; timber and pulp; and oil refining and petrochemicals.

This collection of nine essays seeks to give a voice to workers underrepresented in the scholarship on labour in the 20th-century American South. It contains insights into southerners' concerns about workplace safety, access to training, job mobility, and worker solidarity.

This work is an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labour force within the commission's province. It discusses conflicts between racial groups within labour unions, for example.

Dalton, Georgia, dominates carpet production in the United States, manufacturing 70 percent of the domestic product. This study ranges over 50 years to detail the unique environment of co-operation and competition in Dalton that fostered the rise of homegrown industry.