Cobb, J.C. (1993).
The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990. (2nd Ed.). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Posted by Chip at May 27, 2004 09:25 AM
Category: Economic Development: State and Local Policy: History: Southern States
The Development of Southern Industrial Location Policy
Excerpt: I'm currently reading The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development by James C. Cobb. I'll be posting chapter notes like I have for other books, but I thought I would also post this section from a...
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Tracked: June 18, 2004 07:54 PM
Cobb (1993): Chap 1 Notes
Excerpt: 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...
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Tracked: June 18, 2004 08:42 PM
Cobb (1993): Chap 2 Notes
Excerpt: Chapter 2: Buying Industry After World War II This chapter discusses the effects of Mississippi's BAWI program on interstate competition and the industrial location policies of other states. Mississippi's BAWI program attracted a lot of attention even ...
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Cobb (1993): Chap 3 Notes
Excerpt: Chapter 3: The Sellers of the South This chapter discusses how states and local governments marshalled their forces for promotion purposes: key public officials, including the governor; business leaders, and influential private citizens. Many southern ...
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Cobb (1993): Chap 4 Notes
Excerpt: Chapter 4: With Labor Thrown In This chapter discusses the efforts of southern political and business leaders to keep labor costs low in order to continue attracting industries. The South was much less unionized than the North so many northern...
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Cobb (1993): Chap 5 Notes
Excerpt: Chapter 5: Too Busy To Hate This chapter is concerned with the relationship between public attitudes toward desegregation and economic development. Through mid-century industries relocating to the South accomodated themselves to the South's biracialism...
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Cobb (1993): Chap 6 Notes
Excerpt: Chapter 6: Better Towns, Better Workers, Better Industry Even after the Civil Rights movement somewhat rehabilitated the South's image with regard to race, the region faced other impediments to economic development. In general, the region was viewed as...
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Tracked: July 6, 2004 06:42 AM
Cobb (1984)
Excerpt: This book provides a more compact treatment of much the same subject matter as The Selling of the South. In fact, I wish I had read it before reading Cobb's later book. The first chapter, The Shaping of Southern Growth,...
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Tracked: July 7, 2004 06:06 AM
Cobb (1993): Chap 7 Notes
Excerpt: Chapter 7: The Emergence of the Sunbelt South In this chapter, Cobb addresses the growth that the South experienced in the post-war era. I'll set up the summary with a portion of his concluding paragraph: The Sunbelt boom resulted from...
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Tracked: July 10, 2004 04:29 PM
Cobb (1993): Chap 8 Notes
Excerpt: Chapter 8: Why Industry Came South Cobb is starting to wrap up the book. In this chapter he addresses the main question: Why did industries locate in the South? Was it access to cheap labor? Access to markets? Access to...
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Eisinger (1988): Chap 6 Notes
Excerpt: 6. Supply-side incentives to development: Business climate policies This chapter begins the discussion of state and local economic develpment policies. This chapter specifically focuses on business climate policies that don't have any particular substa...
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Tracked: July 20, 2004 11:13 AM