Making a Living (eBook)

Work and Environment in the United States

Chad Montrie (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
192 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7764-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile mill girls in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading women in the Kansas and Nebraska grasslands, native-born coal miners in southern Appalachia, autoworkers in Detroit, and Mexican and Mexican American farm workers in southern California. Montrie shows how increasingly organized and mechanized production drove a wedge between workers and nature and how workers fought back. Workers' resistance not only addressed wages and conditions, he argues, but also planted the seeds of environmental reform and environmental justice activism. Workers played a critical role in raising popular consciousness, pioneering strategies for enacting environmental regulatory policy, and initiating militant local protest.Filled with poignant and illuminating vignettes, Making a Living provides new insights into the intersection of the labor movement and environmentalism in America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.1.2009
• Zusatzinfo: notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: African American • Agrarian • Agricultural chemicals • agricultural Workers' Organizing Committee • Agriculture • Air Pollution • Akron • Alabama • Alan Derickson • Alienation • America • Andrew Hurley • Antebellum • Anthony Mazzochi • Appalachia • Automobiles • Barbara Smith • BASF • Beauty • Bertell Ollman • Black • Black Days Black Dust • Black Lake • black lung • Blizzard • Border Patrol • Bracero Program • California • Capitalism • Carey McWilliams • Cesar Chavez • Chad Montrie • Charles Ball • Chicana • Chicano • chlorinated hydrocarbons • Christian • Christianity • City • Clinton River • coal • Coal Age • coal miner • Coal Towns • Cold War • Common Lands Common People • communism • company store • Concord River • conservation • cotton • Craig Jenkins • Crandall Shifflet • Crimes Against Nature • David Alan Corbin • David Browder • David Montgomery • DDT • DDT / • Deeper Shades of Green • Delano Grape Strike • Detroit • Detroit River • Division of labor • Dollmaker • Dolores Huerta • domestic economy • domesticity • Donald Worster • Douglas Sackman • Down River Anti-Pollution League • Driven Wild • Drought • Earth Day • Ecology • economy • ejidos • Environment • Environmental Defense Fund • Environmental history • Environmental Inequalities • Environmentalism • Environmentalism and Economic Justice • Environmentalists for Full Employment • environmental justice • environmental movement • estrangement • Ethnicity • Eugene Genovese • Exploitation • Factories in the Field • Factory • factory farming • farming • Farm Labor Organizing • farm workers • Federal Writers' Project • fish and game • Fishing • Flint • Flowers • Frederick Engels • Freedmen's Bureau • freedpeople • Friends of the Earth • gang system • Gardening • gathering • Gender • Georgia • German ideology • God • Grasslands • grass roots • Great Society • Hannah Josephson • Harriet Arnow Simpson • Harriet Farley • Harriet Robinson • Henry David Thoreau • Henry Ford • Highland Park • Historical materialism • History • Homestead • homesteading • household labor • housework • Hunting • Immigrant • Immigration • Industrial • Industrial Agriculture • Industrialization • International Brotherhood of Teamsters • Izaak Walton League • Jim Schwab • John Blassingame • Julie Roy Jeffrey • Kansas • Karl Jacoby • Karl Marx • Kathryn Morse • Kentucky • Kevin Boyle • Kieth Dix • Kirk Boott • Labor • labor environmentalism • Labor history • Labor Movement • Lake St. Clair • Land • Landscape • Lansing • Laura Pulido • Leisure • Liberalism • Life Work and Rebellion in the Coalfields • Lilla Day Monroe • Linda Nash • Lisa Fine • literary romanticism • Literature • livestock • Logging • Lois Gibbs • Love Canal • Lowell • Lowell Offering • Lucy Larcom • Lyndon Johnson • machines • Maine • Marilyn Edid • Marilyn Irvin Holt • Mart Stewart • Massachusetts • Mechanization • Merrimack River • Mexican • Mexican-American • Michigan • Michigan United Conservation Clubs • Migrant • Migration • mill girls • Mills • miner • Miners Millhands and Mountaineers • Mississippi • Mississippi Delta • moral ecology • National Farm Labor Union • national wildlife federation • natural world • Nature • Nature Incorporated • Nebraska • Nelson Lichtenstein • New England • New England Offering • New Hampshire • Nicholas Proctor • Nostalgia • OCAW • Ohio • Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers • Olga Madar • Operatives • Operatives Magazine • Orange Empire • orchards • Organophosphates • Oscar Warbach • Paul Sutter • Pesticides • Philip Foner • Phillip Obermiller • Pioneer • Plains • plantation • Poetry • Politics of Insurgency • pollution • Port Huron • postbellum • preindustrial • Protest • Race • Rachel Carson • Railroad • Recreation • resistance • Richard Judd • Richard White • River Rouge • Robert Armstead • robert gordon • Robert Gottlieb • Romantic • Romanticism • Ronald Eller • Ronald Lewis • rubber industry • Rural • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • San Joaquin Valley • Sarah Bagley • scientific farming • Scott Dewey • sharecropper • sharecroppers • Slave • slave narratives • Slavery • slaves • Socialism • social unionism • soddie • South • Southern California • spinners • Spiritual • sportsmen's clubs • steel plow • Stephen Meyer • Steven Stoll • Strike • Strip mining • Sublime • Subs
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-7764-6 / 0807877646
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7764-7 / 9780807877647