wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America
ISBN: 9780226169101 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "The End of the Line" tells the story of the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kathryn Marie Dudley uses interviews with residents to chart the often confusing process of change that deindustrialization forced on every corner of the community. This honest, moving portrait of one town's radical shift from a manufacturing to a postindustrial economy will redefine the way Americans think about our families, communities, and future.
"An excellent study not only of the cultural disruptions caused by the shutdown of Chrysler's operations in Kenosha, Wisconsin,... "The End of the Line" tells the story of the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kathryn Marie Dudley uses interviews w...
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144,87 zł |
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Guitar Makers: The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America
ISBN: 9780226478678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk--the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon. Because this musical instrument is significant to so many--in ways that are emotional, cultural, and economic--guitar making has experienced a renaissance in North America, both as a popular hobby and, for some, a way of life. In Guitar Makers, Kathryn Marie Dudley introduces us to builders of artisanal guitars, their place in the art...
It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk--the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It i...
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101,94 zł |
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Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland
ISBN: 9780226169132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "Winner of the Margaret Mead Award of the Society for Applied Anthropology"
The farm crisis of the 1980s was the worst economic disaster to strike rural America since the Depression thousands of farmers lost their land and homes, irrevocably altering their communities and, as Kathryn Marie Dudley shows, giving rise to devastating social trauma that continues to affect farmers today. Through interviews with residents of an agricultural county in western Minnesota, Dudley provides an incisive account of the moral dynamics of loss, dislocation, capitalism, and solidarity in farming... "Winner of the Margaret Mead Award of the Society for Applied Anthropology"
The farm crisis of the 1980s was the worst economic disaster to strike... |
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160,97 zł |