Re: Re: Re: Re: more on reparations

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

> At 09:51 AM 08/26/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Author Alston, Lee J., 1951-
> >Title Southern paternalism and the American welfare state :
economics,
> >politics, and institutions in the South, 1865-1965 / Lee J. Alston,
> >Joseph P. Ferrie
> >Pub info Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
1999
>
> what does this book say? how is it relevant?
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine

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Sorry. There's sort of a spillover from a debate Doug and Max are
having on Populism [and it's proclivities towards racism] over on lbo
and it would seem the issue of reparations and welfare can't be
separated from Southern attitudes towards work and dignity [Steele]

Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State
Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965

Alston, Lee J. and Ferrie, Joseph P.

Combining insights from economics, political science, and history,
Professors Alston and Ferrie show how the timing and extent of the
growth of the American welfare state from the Civil War until the
mid-1960s was influenced by the Southern agricultural elite. Before
the mechanization of Southern agriculture, the rural landed interests
had an economic incentive to keep labor cheap and dependent. They
accomplished this through their disproportionate political power at
the local, state, and national level, which enabled them to maintain a
discriminatory legal environment and prevent federal interference in
labor relations.

SERIES NAME:
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions


SUBJECT:
American government, politics, policy
 The 1st chapter is on line at:

< http://object.cup.org/Chapters/0521622107C01.pdf >