America's Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial Transformation in BirminghamRowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 274 pages No American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama. In this critical analysis of why Birmingham became such a focal point, Bobby M. Wilson argues that AlabamaOs path to industrialism differed significantly from that in the North and Midwest. True to its antebellum roots, no other industrial city in the United States would depend so much upon the exploitation of black labor so early in its development as Birmingham. A persuasive exploration of the links between AlabamaOs slaveholding order and the subsequent industrialization of the state, WilsonOs study demonstrates that arguments based on classical economics fail to take into account the ways in which racial issues influenced the rise of industrial capitalism. |
Contents
Introduction Race and Capitalist Development | 1 |
The Origin of Racism Discursive and Material Practices | 7 |
The States Role in Sustaining RaceConnected Practices | 17 |
Capital Restructuring and the Transformation of Race | 29 |
The Slave Mode of Production | 39 |
An Extensive Regime of Accumulation Based on Slave Labor | 49 |
Reconstruction | 57 |
From Slave to Free Black Labor | 65 |
Accommodating the Racial Order The Rise of Institutionalized Racism | 153 |
Scientific Management and the Growth of BlackWhite Competition | 167 |
The Growth of Corporate Power The Emergence of Fordism | 183 |
The Great Depression and the Transformation of the Planter Regime | 197 |
The New Deal and Blacks | 213 |
The Southern Shift of Fordism and Entrepreneurial Regimes | 223 |
Conclusion | 231 |
Bibliography | 237 |
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