Making a living
Chad Montrie · 2008
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About the book
In a fusion of labor and environmental history, Montrie 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. Montrie offers six case studies and 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. From publisher description.
Book details
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 177
- ISBN
- 9780807831977
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