Chapter 1: Balance Agriculture with Industry
The information from chapter 1 is pretty well summarized here.
Here are a couple of other observations from chapter 1.
With all the cheap labor in Mississippi, why did they need incentives. Well, for one thing, the entire South was chock-full of cheap labor -- not just Mississippi. And Mississippi was starting from an even smaller industrial base than the South as a whole, which had 4x the manufacturing per capita. Mississippi officials felt (perhaps, in part, correctly) that they needed something to distinguish their state from the others. (p. 12)
In fighting against unionization, Mississippi officials liked to invoke "free-enterprise" and "capitalism" and rail against "socialism." The irony of doing this while partnering with industry was lost on them. (p. 33)
Cobb, J.C. (1993). The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990. (2nd Ed.). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
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