SOCI 386 Lecture Notes - Moral Responsibility, Ella Baker, Path Dependence
31 Mar 2013
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Political process account of emergence, operation, and decline of movement. Dynamic dimension: demographic and structural changes, electoral realignments, new influential allies, positive state behaviour at federal level. All of these changes emerged gradually in the period between 1910-1950. Cotton economy of the american south- leading export commodity in the early 1900s, slavery was essential to economy of american south. Cotton was used by textile producers in north, who needed access to cheap cotton to become competitive in the global economy- needed cheap workforce in order to produce it cheaply. There was an alliance formed between textile producers in north and plantation owners in south. Reconstruction - rights of blacks- put on hold by this economic alliance- achieved relative emancipation of blacks, but did not go further. Did not want free blacks because they would be able to organize in trade unions and push wages up.
