Schooling or Working? Public Education, Racial Politics, and the Organization of Production in 1910.

摘要: This analysis of educational participation in 1910 uses the example South to further an understanding general processes American schooling. The authors argue that social organization production (such as coerciveness relations, racial segregation labor markets, and utilization seasonality child labor), combination with policies local governments, affected both supply demand for education. Plantation agriculture was negatively associated school-enrollment rates, probably because there were greater restrictions on education plantation areas than elsewhere South. Manufacturing employment school enrollments, it depressed demand: Children who employed manufacturing jobs had forego schooling work. Child agricultural workers, other hand, could attend during slack periods, despite widespread poverty. Finally, a number sources inequality southern enrollments are identified: Whites but not blacks benefited from their location counties large black populations, based tenancy, politics dominated by Democratic party.