Working the Navajo way : labor and culture in the twentieth century / Colleen O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Neill, Colleen M., 1961-

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo Indians--Employment.

Navajo Indians.

Navajo Indians--Social conditions.

Navajo Indians--Government relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

[Paperback edition].

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: Navajo history and western capitalist development

The Diné and the Diné Bikéyah : Navajo history and Navajoland

Mining coal like herding sheep : Navajo coal operators in the mid-twentieth century

Weaving a living : Navajo weavers and the trading post economy

Working for wages the Navajo way : Navajo households and off-reservation wage work

Navajo workers and white man's ways : race, sovereignty, and organized labor on the Navajo reservation

Rethinking modernity and the discourse of development in American Indian history : a Navajo example.

Notes:

Originally published in hardback by the University Press of Kansas in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

ISBN:

9780700623693

0700623698

Publisher Number:

99984849703

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.