An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

Industry and Labor

The Place of Appalachia

Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University  

Stephen L. Fisher, Emory and Henry College
31 January 2013
article

Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906

Aaron Reynolds, University of Texas, Austin
21 January 2013
article

Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones

Mark Auslander, Central Washington University
12 December 2012
article

The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism

Darren E. Grem, Emory University
8 March 2012
presentation

Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South

Mary E. Frederickson, Miami University
16 December 2011
article

Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas, 1943

John Vachon, Photographer
21 November 2011
featured image

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

John Lane, Wofford College
31 October 2011
presentation

Mill children, Macon, Georgia, 1909

Lewis Wickes Hine, Photographer
24 October 2011
featured image

Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee

Fran Ansley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Anne Lewis, University of Texas, Austin
19 May 2011
article

Blue Ridge paper mill, Pigeon Forge River, Canton, North Carolina, 2008

Jeff Rich, Photographer
13 April 2011
featured image

Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the U.S. South

William Brown, Emory University

Mary Odem, Emory University
16 February 2011
article

Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"

George King, Independent Documentary Filmmaker
2 December 2010
short video

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

Allison Hedge Coke, University of Nebraska at Kearney
14 October 2010
presentation

Southern industry, Valdosta, Georgia, 2009

Camille Wright Felton, Photographer
29 April 2010
featured image

Cotton modules and gin, Tallulah, Louisiana, 2006

David Wharton, Photographer
30 March 2010
featured image

"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri

Jarod Roll, University of Sussex
16 March 2010
article

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

Cameron B. LeBlanc, Emory University
22 December 2009
article

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

Shirley Stewart Burns, Ph.D, Independent Appalachian Scholar
30 September 2009
article

Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, & Biotechnology

Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis
28 August 2009
article

Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, D.C.

Richard White, Stanford University
16 April 2009
presentation

Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment

Earl Dotter, Photographer
16 July 2008
photo essay

Starr's Mill, Fayette County, Georgia, 2007

Matt Bower, Photographer
1 July 2008
featured image

Keep tobacco clean, Wilson, North Carolina, 2007

Vern Kousky, Photographer
15 May 2008
featured image

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver
7 March 2008
presentation

Longshot, Mechanicsville neighborhood, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007

Jason Ivany, Photographer
1 January 2008
featured image

Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers

Terry Easton, Emory University
21 December 2007
article

The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape

William G. Thomas III, University of Nebraska
Brooks Miles Barnes, Eastern Shore Public Library; Tom Szuba, University of Virginia
31 July 2007
article

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Pressly Hall, Chester, South Carolina

James L. Hughes III, Emory University
22 November 2006
photo essay

Hill Brothers Short Log Harvesting

Unknown cameraperson, edited by Steve Bransford, Emory University
27 October 2006
short video

Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting

Unknown cameraperson, edited by Steve Bransford, Emory University
27 October 2006
short video

The Life of Cotton at the Katherine Plant of Springs Mills

James L. Hughes III, Emory University
4 October 2006
short video

Work

Darnell Arnoult, Brush Creek, Tennessee
22 June 2006
presentation

Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta

Mary Odem, Emory University
19 May 2006
presentation

Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre

Chuck Leavell, Twiggs County, Georgia
6 February 2006
presentation

The Carolina Piedmont

Allen Tullos, Emory University
27 July 2004
article

Timber, Equity, and Ethics

Susan Pace Hamill, University of Alabama School of Law
23 July 2004
presentation

The Shenandoah Valley

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
20 April 2004
article

The Black Belt

Allen Tullos, Emory University
19 April 2004
article

Mississippi Delta

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
4 April 2004
article

Cajun South Louisiana

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
12 March 2004
article