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Talk about trouble : a New Deal portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression / edited by Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Charles L. Perdue, Jr. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1929--United States.
- Depressions.
- New Deal, 1933-1939--Virginia.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Interviews--Virginia.
- Interviews.
- Virginia--Social life and customs.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--Social conditions.
- Virginia--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 493 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Talk about Trouble presents 61 Writers' Project life histories that depict Virginia men and women, both blacks and whites, and offer a cross-section of ages, occupations, experiences, and cultural and class backgrounds. Headnotes set the context for each life history and introduce people and themes that link individual events and experiences.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Narrating Experience: Virginia and Virginians in the Decade of the Great Depression. 1. Narrating Old Ways and Past Times: Of "Infairs" and "Callithumps" 2. Narrating Women's Experience: "Living the Life of a Woman" 3. Narrating Men's Experience: "We Meet With So Many Changes" 4. Narrating the African American Experience: "Democracy Paid For"
- pt. II. Making a Living: From Farm to Factory. 5. Making a Living from the Land: Paid in "Chips and Whetstones" 6. Making a Living on the Water: "Takes a Man with a Good Back An' Strong Arms" 7. Making a Living in the Trades and Business: "A High Standard of Output" 8. Making a Living in Iron, Steel, and Coal: "Of Every Artificer in Brass and Iron" 9. Making a Living in Factory and Mill: "Hurrying to Keep Time With Machines" Epilogue: Virginia on the Eve of World War II
- App. A. Selected Listing of Federal Relief Agencies and Programs
- App. B. Supplemental Data on Informants and Selected VWP Interviewers
- App. C. RA/FSA Photographs Taken in Virginia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p.429-473) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908660-5-9
- 0-8078-6322-X
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