| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. by Philip Scranton. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xvi, 310 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2218-0.)

The big news on the southern economy is, after decades of false starts, depressed hopes, and unchanging stagnation, the region is nearly at parity with the rest of the nation. Some might still see an old South lurking in the corners of this new one. Wages are generally lower and unions are not welcomed below the Mason-Dixon line. Environmentalism places a dismal third, at best, behind hunting and fishing when it comes to nature. But the South of Jim Crow, rural isolation, and agrarian opposition to the modern corporation has largely vanished. 1

This book offers some valuable studies of various aspects of the change. It is one of the few studies of southern economic history to recognize that the decades since World War II cannot be lumped in with all the others since the Civil War. The post–World War II South needs to be addressed in its own right. . . .

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