Philip Scranton is University Board of Governors Professor of History of Industry and Technology at Rutgers University. His books include Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 and Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America. Scranton is coeditor, with Douglas Flamming, of the Economy and Society in the Modern South series.
One of the book's greatest strengths is that each chapter covers a
very specific and narrow topic, but taken together the work as a
whole provides great depth to Southern industrial history.--Lisa
Ennis "Tennessee Librarian"
The Second Wave is an admirable first step in addressing the gap in
historical literature on specific southern industrial developments
since 1940. . . . Each of the essayists mined a large amount of
documentary evidence, and their mastery of the sources shines
through in strong arguments and detailed analyses.--South Carolina
Historical Magazine
The Second Wave represents an important contribution to southern
economic and business history.--Technology and Culture
Provides new insights and highlights the complexity and contingency
of southern industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s.--Journal
of Regional Science
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. . . . 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.--Journal of American History
The nine high-quality essays in this volume . . . document some of
the economic, political, and cultural changes that have occurred
during the second wave of southern industrialization. Authors of
the papers are geographers, historians, and sociologists. Each
contribution is a case study of a specific industry during or after
WW II.--Choice
These essays originated at a 1998 Georgia Institute of Technology
conference on southern industrialization, and Philip Scranton, the
book's editor, has masterfully organized them into a cohesive
presentation. . . . A thought provoking set of diverse yet
complementary studies.--Journal of Southern History
This is a useful and at times innovative collection that has much
to offer to students of economic and business history and to debate
about Southern industrialization or regional change in the
twentieth century.--Business History
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