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Agreed. And the post-civil war south adds a bunch of confounding factors that make comparison hard. In the 1870s there were a lot of newly free blacks who wer
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
Agreed. And the post-civil war south adds a bunch of confounding factors that make comparison hard.
In the 1870s there were a lot of newly free blacks who were saying "fuck sharecropping, fuck being scared of the klan, I'm gonna work in a factory up north" and they weren't moving north with jobs already lined up.
- padobson 8y agoWow. So do you see an analagous relationship between the freed blacks entering the American labor market in the late nineteenth century and the Chinese peasants entering the global labor market in the last 4 decades?
- bwanab 8y agoIt's not that far off. In both cases, it involved agricultural laborers in a mass migration to jobs in newly opened factories that were building stuff for mostly far off other people.