Making a living [[electronic resource] ] : work and environment in the United States / / Chad Montrie
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Montrie Chad
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| Titolo: |
Making a living [[electronic resource] ] : work and environment in the United States / / Chad Montrie
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Labor - United States - History |
| Environmentalism - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Making a living |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0617-8 |
| 0-8078-7764-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809377603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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