The Political Economy of Appalachia
Author | : Monroe Newman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Political Economy of Appalachia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Political Economy Of Appalachia PDF full book. Access full book title The Political Economy Of Appalachia.
Author | : Monroe Newman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeffrey P. Stotik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ken Fones-Wolf |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0252073711 |
One of the central questions facing scholars of Appalachia concerns how a region so rich in natural resources could end up a symbol of poverty. Typical culprits include absentee landowners, reactionary coal operators, stubborn mountaineers, and greedy politicians. In a deft combination of labor and business history, Glass Towns complicates these answers by examining the glass industry s potential to improve West Virginia s political economy by establishing a base of value-added manufacturing to complement the state s abundance of coal, oil, timber, and natural gas. Through case studies of glass production hubs in Clarksburg, Moundsville, and Fairmont (producing window, tableware, and bottle glass, respectively), Ken Fones-Wolf looks closely at the impact of industry on local populations and immigrant craftsmen. He also examines patterns of global industrial restructuring, the ways workers reshaped workplace culture and political action, and employer strategies for responding to global competition, unreliable markets, and growing labor costs at the end of the nineteenth century. "
Author | : John Gaventa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Land tenure |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Southern Mountain Research Collective |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region, Southern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steve Fisher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sari Lubitsch Tudiver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard A. Couto |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Community health services |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
This thesis examines the social and ecological problems associated with mountaintop mining in central Appalachia. Theoretical insights from world system theorists and other political economists are used to trace the roots of these problems to the historical progression of different modes of extraction in the region. The restructuring of the region's social, cultural, and ecological systems to meet the needs of core production over time has perpetuated its position as a resource extractive periphery. This occurred in three major modes: a frontier mode, an agricultural mode, and an industrial raw materials mode. The last mode has been characterized primarily by coal mining and has shifted from labor intensive forms to capital intensive forms. The role different classes of actors have played and continue to play is discussed. Finally, key processes are summarized and conclusions offered.
Author | : Steven Stoll |
Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429946970 |
How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States—until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a “scramble for Appalachia” that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.