Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States

by Chad Montrie

Book Overview

In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.
Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile "mill girls" in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807831972
• ISBN13: 9780807831977
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"