03030nam 2200589 a 450 991078192350332120200520144314.01-4696-0617-80-8078-7764-6(CKB)1000000000487682(EBL)361355(OCoLC)476190287(SSID)ssj0000195733(PQKBManifestationID)11181422(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195733(PQKBWorkID)10141210(PQKB)10599524(OCoLC)233572817(MdBmJHUP)muse28045(Au-PeEL)EBL361355(CaPaEBR)ebr10273393(MiAaPQ)EBC361355(EXLCZ)99100000000048768220071029d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaking a living[electronic resource] work and environment in the United States /Chad MontrieChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20081 online resource (190 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5878-1 0-8078-3197-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Environmentalism6. A Landscape Foreign and Physically Threatening: Southern California Farmworkers, Pesticides, and Environmental JusticeConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 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 regulatory policy, and initiating militant local protest.LaborUnited StatesHistoryEnvironmentalismUnited StatesHistoryLaborHistory.EnvironmentalismHistory.331.0973Montrie Chad1495675MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781923503321Making a living3752305UNINA