Hard times are no stranger to the people of Appalachia and the South. Earlier books have documented the low wages of the textile industry, boom-and-bust cycles of coal mining, and debt peonage of Southern agriculture that have established a heritage of poverty that endures. This book is a unique collection of essays by people who are actively involved in the efforts to challenge economic injustice in these regions and to empower the residents to build democratic alternatives.
In the series "Labor and Social Change," edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni.
Hard times are no stranger to the people of Appalachia and the South. Earlier books have documented the low wages of the textile industry, boom-an...
Hard times are no stranger to the people of Appalachia and the South. This book presents a collection of essays by people who are involved in the efforts to challenge economic injustice in these regions and to empower the residents to build democratic alternatives.
Hard times are no stranger to the people of Appalachia and the South. This book presents a collection of essays by people who are involved in the effo...
When she began work on this collection, Barbara Ellen Smith was asked, Why work on a book about women in the South? Nobody writes books about women in the Midwest. In an era of intensified globalization, when populations, cultures, and capital move across the boundaries of nation-states in multiple forms and directions, the concept of a subnational region seems parochial and out of date. But, Smith argues, it is precisely because of the historical construction of the secessionist South as an embattled region when all manners of social problems tend to be blamed on poor women and children and...
When she began work on this collection, Barbara Ellen Smith was asked, Why work on a book about women in the South? Nobody writes books about women in...
In the WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY series, this book analyses the dramatic developments in the lives of contemporary Southern women. Case studies portray women's diverse circumstances, from rural African women taking on new roles as community builders to female textile workers contending with automation and reorganization of the mills.
In the WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY series, this book analyses the dramatic developments in the lives of contemporary Southern women. Case studies p...
