Schwartz Radical Protest and Social Structure

The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6083-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Web PDF

Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890 provides an analysis of the occurrence of protest, its growth, and demise through the study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance, the largest and most radical component of American Populism. The monograph presents historical and sociological facts and aims to interpret protest movements and the social structure they seek to reform. Chapters are devoted to the discussion of tenancy, southern politics, and the spiral of agrarian protest; organization and history of the Southern Farmers' Alliance; the role of the social structure in the behavior of social movements; and the determinants of organized protest. The book will be invaluable to historians, sociologists, researchers, and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwartz, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southem Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;10
6;Acknowledgments;12
7;INTRODUCTION;14
8;Chapter 1. Tenancy, Southern Politics, and the Spiral of Agrarian Protest;16
9;PART I: THE ONE-CROP COTTON TENANCY SYSTEM;30
9.1;Chapter 2. Basic Tenancy Relationships;32
9.1.1;The Basic Tenant — Landlord Relationship;34
9.1.2;The Merchant and the Crop Lien;47
9.2;Chapter 3. The Tenancy System;54
9.2.1;The System of Supply and Credit;54
9.2.2;The System of Marketing;59
9.3;Chapter 4. The Dynamics of Change in Southern Farm Tenancy;70
9.3.1;The Landlord and the Merchant;70
9.3.2;Yeoman and Tenant;76
9.3.3;From Tenant to Laborer;80
9.4;Chapter 5. Cotton Tenancy, Farmer Immiseration, and the Reemergence of the Planter Aristocracy;86
9.4.1;Cotton Domination of Southern Agriculture;86
9.4.2;Farmer Insolvency and the True Extent of Tenancy;89
9.4.3;The ''New" Landlord Class;93
10;PART II: AN ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN FARMERS' ALLIANCE;102
10.1;Chapter 6. Growth and Merger;104
10.1.1;Early Growth and Merger;105
10.1.2;The Farmers' Associations;108
10.1.3;The Merger of the Alliance and the Wheel;113
10.1.4;Organizational History, Organizational Structure, Social Class, and Oligarchy;115
10.2;Chapter 7. Structure and Structural Tensionwithin the Alliance;118
10.2.1;Alliance Organization;118
10.2.2;The Social Origins of Leadership and Membership;126
10.2.3;Newspapers and the Leadership-Membership Contradiction;131
10.2.4;Financing the Alliance;134
10.2.5;The Farmers' Alliance and the Southern Tenant Farming System;138
11;PART III: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS;140
11.1;Chapter 8. Defining the Farmer's Alliance;142
11.2;Chapter 9. The Parameters of Organizational Behavior;148
11.2.1;Rationality and Irrationality;148
11.2.2;The Role of the Social Structure in the Behavior of Social Movements;158
11.2.3;Structured Ignorance;163
11.3;Chapter 10. The Determinants of Organized Protest—Part 1;168
11.3.1;The Class Makeup of the Organization;168
11.3.2;Internal Structure and Functioning of the Organization;172
11.3.3;The Nature of the Active and Potential Opposition;175
11.3.4;The Nature of the Artive and Potential Support;177
11.4;Chapter 11. The Determinants of Organized Protest—Part 2;184
11.4.1;The Structural Position of the Organization's Membership in the Structure to Be Challenged;184
11.4.2;The Prevailing Analysis of the Situation;190
11.4.3;The Previous Actions and Their Outcomes;202
11.5;Chapter 12. The Life of Protest Organizations;206
11.5.1;The Birth and Death of Protest;209
12;PART IV: THE PROCESS OF ALLIANCE PROTEST;212
12.1;Chapter 13. Local Economic Action andthe Process of Escalation;214
12.2;Chapter 14. The Alliance Exchange: The Ultimate Counterinstitution;230
12.3;Chapter 15. The Great Jute Boycott;248
12.4;Chapter 16. The Farmers' Alliance in and around Richmond County, North Carolina;260
12.4.1;Co-op Buying in Mountain Creek;263
12.4.2;The Alliance Enters North Carolina;264
12.4.3;Local Actions and Merchant Counterattack;268
12.4.4;The Struggle for the Alliance Exchange;270
12.4.5;The Jute Boycott;275
12.4.6;The Entry into Politics;278
12.5;Chapter 17. The Logic of the Shift into Politics;282
12.6;Conclusion;292
12.7;Chapter 18. The Legacy of Populism Defeated;294
13;Subject Index;302