Smokestacks in the hills : rural-industrial workers in West Virginia / / Lou Martin
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| Autore: |
Martin Lou
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| Titolo: |
Smokestacks in the hills : rural-industrial workers in West Virginia / / Lou Martin
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48 |
| Soggetto topico: | Industrialization - West Virginia |
| Rural industries - West Virginia | |
| Rural development - West Virginia | |
| Working class - West Virginia | |
| Factories - West Virginia | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West Virginia |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | A rural place and a rural people -- Building factories in the country -- Rise of the rural-industrial workers -- Prosperous, independent rural-industrial workers -- Work and identity in the factory and at home -- Movements for equality in a time of industrial restructuring -- Conclusion: Country people and capital mobility. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class - and what that meant for communities and for labor. The result is an illuminating consideration of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the erroneous but persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Smokestacks in the hills |
| ISBN: | 0-252-09756-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910796224703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Working class in American history.