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The Plantation Economy and Its Aftermath
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In this article, it is pointed out that the struggle for Black freedom in the United States has shifted from the South to the North, from rural to urban areas, and substantively, from civil rights to issues such as jobs, education and housing.About:
This article is published in Review of Radical Political Economics.The article was published on 1974-04-01. It has received 10 citations till now.read more
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Migrations and Boundary Work: Harvard, Radical Economists, and the Committee on Political Discrimination
TL;DR: In the late 1960s, in the midst of campus unrest, a group of young economists calling themselves "radicals" challenged the boundaries of economics as mentioned in this paper, and the American Economic Association's investigations of these cases, imposing the conventional cultural map, concluded that personnel decisions had not been politically motivated.
Theorizing Impending Peripheries: Postindustrial Landscapes at the Edge of Hyper-Modernity's Collapse
TL;DR: Steinberg et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the impact of market integration on local communities across the world by identifying the commonalities and differences that characterize different localities experiencing a transition from a position of centrality in the global mercantile networks to a renewed peripheral situation.
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A materialist analysis of slavery and sharecropping in the Southern United States
TL;DR: The authors examined Southern slavery and sharecropping in the light of the studies of the European Marxists on ancient slavery and of the works of the classical political economists and Marx on French metayage.
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Industrialization and Migration: Some Effects On the Puerto Rican Working Class:
Ricardo Campos,Frank Bonilla +1 more
TL;DR: This paper translated the first part into English, but left the second part in Spanish, accompanied by marginal notes in English (the editors) to ac commodate English language readers, but they have left the third part into Spanish, but have translated it into English.
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Trends in Economic Discrimination Against Blacks in the U.S. Working Class
TL;DR: It can be argued, on the one hand, that advanced capitalism has a stake in the full integration of its working force because its maximum profit lies in creating the largest possible pool of mutually substitutable employees as discussed by the authors.
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The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A Study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment
Roger L. Ransom,Richard Sutch +1 more
TL;DR: In the early days after the Civil War, southern landowners attempted to preserve the plantation system by offering to hire the newly freed ex-slaves on an annual contract for wages as discussed by the authors.
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The Negro Population
TL;DR: The Negro population of South Carolina exhibited in 1880 a considerable increase over that of two decades earlier as discussed by the authors, and the growth of the black population was even more striking, as compared with the white population.