{"product_id":"making-a-living-work-and-environment-in-the-united-states-9780807858783","title":"Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States","description":"In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, \u003ci\u003eMaking a Living\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChad Montrie offers six case studies: textile \"mill girls\" in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading women in the Kansas and Nebraska grasslands, native-born coal miners in southern Appalachia, autoworkers in Detroit, and Mexican and Mexican American farm workers in southern California. Montrie shows how increasingly organized and mechanized production drove a wedge between workers and nature--and how workers fought back. Workers' resistance not only addressed wages and conditions, he argues, but also planted the seeds of environmental reform and environmental justice activism. Workers played a critical role in raising popular consciousness, pioneering strategies for enacting environmental regulatory policy, and initiating militant local protest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilled with poignant and illuminating vignettes, \u003ci\u003eMaking a Living\u003c\/i\u003e provides new insights into the intersection of the labor movement and environmentalism in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chad Montrie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.17h x 6.48w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807858783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMontrie, Chad:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Chad Montrie is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and author of \u003ci\u003eTo Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia\u003c\/i\u003e (from the University of North Carolina Press).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40412457828467,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":50.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4bb5f9b4-e82d-47c7-b6ea-f4fbf7594b96.jpg?v=1662126839","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/making-a-living-work-and-environment-in-the-united-states-9780807858783","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}