Making a living : work and environment in the United States / Chad Montrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montrie, Chad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--United States--History.

Labor.

Environmentalism--United States--History.

Environmentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Contents; 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

6. A Landscape Foreign and Physically Threatening: Southern California Farmworkers, Pesticides, and Environmental JusticeConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908795-7-8

979-88-9313-197-0

1-4696-0617-8

0-8078-7764-6

OCLC:

476190287