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Cotton and Class in California

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Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 148–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-65-148
Published: 01 May 1996
...Ramón A. Gutiérrez Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 THE PAST IN PRINT Cotton and Class in California Ramon A. Gutikrrez Devra Weber, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton...
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Figure 1. Cotton and raffia interweave from the collection of Alphonse Ahouado. Photo by author, Abomey, Benin, 2015.

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Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 1. Cotton and raffia interweave from the collection of Alphonse Ahouado. Photo by author, Abomey, Benin, 2015. More
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Living the Chilean Revolution: Industrial Workers in Allende's Chile

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Peter Winn
Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (124): 55–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3159960
Published: 01 January 2016
...Peter Winn Industrial workers in Allende's Chile lived its revolutionary process most intensely. The Yarur cotton mill, Chile's largest, was the first big factory to be seized by its workers, nationalized by Allende, and incorporated into the social property area. It was also the first to introduce...
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Ireland’s Commodity Frontiers: Rural Economy and Society in Global Perspective

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Cathal Smith
Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 149–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9566174
Published: 01 May 2022
... of global capitalism by supplying items including cereals, meat, cotton, sugar, coal, iron, and oil. This article argues that rural Ireland was part of capitalism’s commodity frontiers from the sixteenth century and demonstrates how changing patterns of Irish livestock and grain production—as well...
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The Aswan Dam and Egyptian Water Control Policy, 1882 – 1902

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Claire Cookson-Hills
Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (116): 59–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1965693
Published: 01 May 2013
..., in order to enact a concrete imperial priority: growing cotton. One way the occupiers implemented this policy objective was through the design and construction of the Aswan Dam (1898 – 1902) by British engineers and British engineering firms. The engineers followed nineteenth-century hydraulic engineering...
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Broadus Mitchell (1892–1988)

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Jacqueline Hall
Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (45): 31–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-45-31
Published: 01 October 1989
... as The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South. The book bore the mark of Mitchell's upbringing. Indeed, he claimed that his work represented "little more than illustration of RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 45 1989 PAGES 31-38 32 / RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW [his father‘s] analysis of the past...
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Commodities, Colonial Science, and Environmental Change in Latin American History

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Mark Carey
Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 185–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2009-042
Published: 01 May 2010
... to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Casey Walsh, Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border . College Station: Texas A&amp;M University Press, 2008...
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Pawtucket Village and the Strike of 1824: The Origins of Class Conflict in Rhode Island

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Gary Kulik
Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 5–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1978-17-5
Published: 01 May 1978
... Island-Massachusetts border, was the most important industrial village in the United States. The water-powered cotton textile industry began here in 1790 with Samuel Slater's introduction of the Arkwright system of carding and spinning. By the early 1820s...
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Culture, Politics, and Acquiescence: Left Historians and Textile Paternalism

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Philip Scranton
Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 482–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1984-28-30-482
Published: 01 May 1984
...: “cotton mills springing up in the fields “self-made men,” and so forth. The putative pattern is the recapit- ulation of the British and Yankee industrial sequence. All this Billings seeks to undercut by asking a fairly simple set of questions for the case of North Carolina. When did factory...
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Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging: common Rights and Class Relations in the Postbellum South

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Steven Hahn
Radical History Review (1982) 1982 (26): 37–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1982-26-37
Published: 01 October 1982
... the majority of these farmers had owned no slaves and resided in non-plantation areas, the postwar period saw growing numbers drawn into the cotton econ- omy, eventually leaving the South with an unprecedented level of eco- nomic integration.5 The connections between Emancipation and the ab- sorption...
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Work and Community in Saylesville

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Kate Dunnigan, Richard Quinney
Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 173–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1978-17-173
Published: 01 May 1978
...Kate Dunnigan; Richard Quinney © April 1977 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization 1978 Work and Community in Saylesville Kate Dunnigan Richard Quinney "Rhode Island being the birthplace of cotton manufacturing in America, it is only natural...
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A Lifelong Radical: Clyde L. Johnson, 1908–1994

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Robin D. G. Kelley
Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 255–258.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-255
Published: 01 May 1995
... Civil Rights activists stand in awe. They had guns and used them when they had to. The lesson became clear to Clyde during a series of cotton pickers’ and cotton choppers’ strikes in 1935. Between shootouts, lynchings, and random mob violence, many activists and sympathizers lost their lives...
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The Meaning of Freedom

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Eric Foner
Radical History Review (1987) 1987 (39): 92–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1987-39-92
Published: 01 October 1987
... throughout the South complained of the difficulty of obtaining female field laborers. Thus was lost, as a Georgian put it, "a very important per cent of the entire labor of the South." The editor of 7Xc Plantation lamented that black women would no longer "pick cotton, which is a woman's work...
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Notes on Peasant Consciousness and Revolutionary Politics in Nicaragua 1955–1990

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Jeffrey L. Gould
Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (48): 65–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-48-65
Published: 01 October 1990
... cotton pickers into cotton pro- ducers, the sweetness of the peasant victory has often been soured by the political and cultural insensitivity of some state function- aries and Sandinista militants This insensitivity derives, to a sig- nificant degree, from a failure to understand the development...
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African-American Struggles for Citizenship in the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas in the Age of Jim Crow

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Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 33–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-55-33
Published: 01 January 1993
... In the spring of 1965, twelve tractor drivers and their families, who were chopping cotton for three dollars per twelve-hour day, walked off a Mississippi Delta plantation to demand a minimum wage. Their employer immediately evicted them. Undaunted, the eighty workers then moved into tents...
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PARAMETERS FOR PATERNALISM

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Fred Siegel
Radical History Review (1976) 1976 (12): 60–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1636545-1976-12-60
Published: 01 October 1976
... to insignifi• cance. Moving with a breadth of vision and a taste for resolving antimonies nurtured by his study of Marx and Gramsci, Genovese is able to argue plausibly that the differences between the upper and lower south, the tidewater and the uplands, tobacco, sugar and cotton regions, large...
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From Revolution to Reaction: Early Pentecostalism, Radicalism, and Race in Southeast Missouri, 1910–1930

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Jarod H. Roll
Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (90): 5–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-90-5
Published: 01 October 2004
... backwater to an important site of lumber extraction and then to emerging large-scale cotton production. This economic transformation brought about a massive population boom first of white migrants from the Ozark highlands and western Tennessee looking for work...
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The Knights of Labor in Rhode Island

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Paul Buhle
Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 39–74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1978-17-39
Published: 01 May 1978
.... Q: Rehearse the articles of thy belief. A: I believe in the Golden Rule--do unto others as you would have them do unto you--and in Honesty, his only son, who was conceived by our Common Right, born of the Virgin Truth, suffered under Cotton Treason...
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“Domesticating the Unfamiliar”: Afropolitan Dress in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey

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Elizabeth Ann Fretwell
Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 19–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9847788
Published: 01 October 2022
...Figure 1. Cotton and raffia interweave from the collection of Alphonse Ahouado. Photo by author, Abomey, Benin, 2015. ...
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Man of Sorrows in Folsom

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John Hayes
Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 119–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-030
Published: 01 May 2007
..., laborers in the coal and lumber camps — experienced the raw realities of poverty and social marginality, of life on the capitalist periphery. Hard labor in the cotton and tobacco fields, in the mines and sawmills, brought little reward to the laborer: region-wide, and in sharp contrast...
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