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Montrie Chad |
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Making a living [[electronic resource] ] : work and environment in the United States / / Chad Montrie |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0617-8 |
0-8078-7764-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Labor - United States - History |
Environmentalism - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. I Think Less of the Factory Than of My Native Dell: Labor, Nature, and the Lowell Mill Girls; 2. Living by Themselves: Slaves' and Freedmen's Hunting, Fishing, and Gardening in the Mississippi Delta; 3. Men Alone Cannot Settle a Country: Domesticating Nature in the Kansas-Nebraska Grasslands; 4. Degrees of Separation: Nature and the Shift from Farmer to Miner to Factory Hand in Southern West Virginia; 5. A Decent, Wholesome Living Environment for Everyone: Michigan Autoworkers and the Origins of Modern Environmentalism |
6. A Landscape Foreign and Physically Threatening: Southern California Farmworkers, Pesticides, and Environmental JusticeConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The fight for workers' rights meets the environmental movement in this imaginative study. Chad Montrie offers six case studies to show 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 |
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