"Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one—an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a meticulous application of that theory to the rise and collapse of the Populist movement."—Craig Jenkins, Theory and Society
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Michael Schwartz, professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the coauthor of The Business Elite as a Ruling Class and The Power Structure of American Business, the latter of which is also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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This review is from: Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890 (Paperback)
I agree with Michael from NY. Schwartz's sudy is a superb analysis of farm tennancy and the dynamics of protest in late 19th century South. Schwartz's methodology and thesis have been assailed by many historians of this era in southern history but no one can deny that his analysis is grounded in the primary sources and offers an insight into the tennancy system that few studies of this phenomenon can match.
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This review is from: Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890 (Paperback)
After reading this, I could not help but scratch my head and ask myself why it is that this isn't more prominant in social movement theory / political sociology. The book provides an excellent framework for thinking about collective action and the logic of the emergence, and rise or decline of movements for radical change from below. This should be standard reading for undergrad/graduate students studying social movements and/or political processes.
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In the turbulence of the post-Civil War South, it was not easy to separate the truly significant developments from a wide selection of glittering irrelevancies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crap lien, membership demoralization, jute boycott, cotton tenancy system, structured ignorance, noninstitutional power, jute trust, membership enthusiasm, tenant farming system, structural leverage, prevailing analysis, small yeomen, statewide leadership, membership organizing, crop lien, protest organizations, lien system, organizational discipline, cotton buyers, parent structure, membership commitment, lien law Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Raleigh Progressive Farmer, North Carolina, George Report, National Economist, Florida Dispatch, Agriculture Report, Civil War, South Carolina, United States, Mountain Creek, New South, Texas Exchange, Baton Rouge, Journal of Southern History, Texas Alliance, Richmond County, Scott Morgan, President Alexander, Vann Woodward, Black Belt, Journal of Economic History, New Orleans, Southern Mercury, Colored Alliance, Atlanta Constitution New!
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In the turbulence of the post-Civil War South, it was not easy to separate the truly significant developments from a wide selection of glittering irrelevancies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crap lien, membership demoralization, jute boycott, cotton tenancy system, structured ignorance, noninstitutional power, jute trust, membership enthusiasm, tenant farming system, structural leverage, prevailing analysis, small yeomen, statewide leadership, membership organizing, crop lien, protest organizations, lien system, organizational discipline, cotton buyers, parent structure, membership commitment, lien law Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Raleigh Progressive Farmer, North Carolina, George Report, National Economist, Florida Dispatch, Agriculture Report, Civil War, South Carolina, United States, Mountain Creek, New South, Texas Exchange, Baton Rouge, Journal of Southern History, Texas Alliance, Richmond County, Scott Morgan, President Alexander, Vann Woodward, Black Belt, Journal of Economic History, New Orleans, Southern Mercury, Colored Alliance, Atlanta Constitution New!
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- Cotton Industry by Matthew B. Hammond on 7 pages
- The Farmers' Alliance history and agricultural digest (American farmers and the rise of agribusiness) by N. A Dunning on 5 pages
- Lower Piedmont Country: The Uplands of the Deep South (Library Alabama Classics) by Herman Clarence Nixon on 5 pages
- Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (Southern Classics (Univ of South Carolina)) by Francis Butler Simkins on page 14, page 99, and page 117
- Populism to Progressivism in Alabama by Sheldon Hackney on page 12, page 14, and page 282
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