Smokestacks in the Hills : Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Martin, Lou (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Working class.
Rural industries.
Rural development.
Industrialization.
Factories.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Usines > Virginie-Occidentale.
Travailleurs > Virginie-Occidentale.
Developpement rural > Virginie-Occidentale.
Industrie rurale > Virginie-Occidentale.
Industrialisation > Virginie-Occidentale.
Factories > West Virginia.
Working class > West Virginia.
Rural development > West Virginia.
Rural industries > West Virginia.
Industrialization > West Virginia.
West Virginia.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780252097560

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