Smokestacks in the hills : rural-industrial workers in West Virginia /
Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class - and what that meant for communities...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana, IL :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Working class in American history.
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Access E-Book Access E-Book Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Summary: | Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class - and what that meant for communities and for labor. The result is an illuminating consideration of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the erroneous but persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252097560 0252097564 |