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Worked Over : The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community /

"Worked Over is about large-scale social change seen at close range, through the lives of generations of working people in a small manufacturing center [comprising the Mohawk River Valley towns of Herkimer, Ilion, Frankfort, and Mohawk] along New York State's old Erie Canal ... [T]he Remin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Doukas, Dimitra, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Encounters
  • 1. Introduction: The Other American Culture
  • 2. The Valley
  • 3. Local Knowledge
  • 4. Local History
  • pt. II. The Gospel of Work
  • 5. The Remingtons of Ilion
  • 6. The Remington Success
  • 7. The Remington Failure
  • pt. III. The Corporate Regime
  • 8. Cultural Revolution
  • 9. The Gospel of Wealth
  • 10. Learning to Expect Hard Times
  • 11. Wealth against Commonwealth
  • App. 1. Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
  • App. 2. Local Historical Sources and Abbreviations.