TY - BOOK AU - Goldfield,Michael TI - The southern key: class, race, and radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780190079352 AV - HD8083 U1 - 331.09750904 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Labor movement KW - Southern States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Labor unions KW - Industries KW - United States KW - Industry KW - ukslc KW - Economics KW - thema N1 - Also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - The South is today, as it always has been, the key to understanding American society, its politics, its constitutional anomalies and government structure, its culture, its social relations, its music and literature, its media focus, its blind spots, and virtually everything else. 'The Southern Key' argues that much of what is important in American politics and society today was largely shaped by the successes and failures of the labor movements of the 1930s and 1940s, and most notably the failures of southern labor organizing during this period. It also argues that these failures, despite some important successes in organizing interracial unions, left the South (and consequentially much of the rest of the United States as well) racially backward and open to right-wing demagoguery UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190079321.001.0001 ER -