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Making a living : work and environment in the United States /
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 address...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.