Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States - Softcover

Montrie, Chad

 
9780807858783: Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807858781 ISBN 13: 9780807858783
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile "mill girls" in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading women in the Kansas and Nebraska grasslands, native-born coal miners in southern Appalachia, autoworkers in Detroit, and Mexican and Mexican American farm workers in southern California. Montrie shows how increasingly organized and mechanized production drove a wedge between workers and nature-and how workers fought back. Workers' resistance not only addressed wages and conditions, he argues, but also planted the seeds of environmental reform and environmental justice activism. Workers played a critical role in raising popular consciousness, pioneering strategies for enacting environmental regulatory policy, and initiating militant local protest. Filled with poignant and illuminating vignettes, Making a Living provides new insights into the intersection of the labor movement and environmentalism in America.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Chad Montrie is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and author of To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia (from the University of North Carolina Press).

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807858781
ISBN 13 
9780807858783
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
190
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