Working the Navajo Way : Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century / Colleen O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Neill, Colleen M., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo Indians--Government relations.

Navajo Indians.

Navajo Indians--Social conditions.

Navajo Indians--Employment.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

[Paperback edition]

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2013.

Summary:

"For far too long, Native Americans have been absent from labor history, and labor has been a neglected part of Native American history. O'Neill corrects these deficiencies in her well-written and well-researched book."--Pacific Historical Review "A superb book that challenges historians to examine how indigenous peoples have developed alternative modernities by adapting to capitalism, rather than simply becoming its 'underdeveloped' and dependent victims."--Journal of Arizona History "A penetrating and insightful analysis."--American Historical Review "A landmark study that bridges disciplines and fields to produce a new model for understanding the nexus among Indian, labor, and U.S. economic history."--Western Historical Quarterly.

Contents:

Introduction: Navajo history and western capitalist development

The Dine and the Dine Bikeyah : 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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780700623693

0700623698

OCLC:

966938706