The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Women in the Rural South: Scraping a Living from Two-bit Jobs By Barbara Ellen Smith Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 5-8 Southern working class women are survivors. No message emerges as vividly from the stories in this booklet, Picking
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Unseen Partners in the Economy By Barbara Ellen Smith Vol. 9, No. 3, 1987, pp. 4-6 Women have long been “unseen partners” in agricultural production. They have been partners in the sense that their field labor in direct production and
Rural Poverty and Rural Development By Barbara Ellen Smith Vol. 13, No. 2, 1991, pp. 14-17 I belong to a generation that never experienced the frightening, pervasive poverty of the Great Depression. I grew up in an urban area believing
Rethinking Race and Poverty in the Global South By Barbara Ellen Smith Vol. 20, No. 2, 1998 pp. 3-4 The borders of the South are collapsing. The forces of globalization are reconfiguring demographics, workplaces, and-not just in Miami or Atlanta,
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