edited by John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith, Alex Willingham.
Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1990.
xiii, 301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations ;
24 cm.
Labor and social change
Includes bibliographical references.
"It has to come from the people": responding to plant closings in Ivanhoe, Virginia / Maxine Waller [and others] -- People power: working for the future in the East Kentucky coalfields / Kristin Layng Szakos -- Voices from the coalfields: how miners' families understand the crisis of coal / Mike Yarrow -- Women miners can dig it, too! / Betty Jean Hall -- Organizing women for local economic development / Chris Weiss -- Organizing rural tobacco farmers: Central Kentucky in global context / Hal Hamilton -- From the mountains to the Maquiladoras: a case study of capital flight and its impact on workers / John Gaventa -- Betrayal of trust: the impact of economic development policy upon working citizens / John Bookser-Feister and Leah Wise.
New work force, new organizing: the experience of women office workers and 9 to 5 / Cindia Cameron -- The changing international division of labor: links with Southern Africa / Ann Seidman -- Community-based economics education: a personal, cultural, and political project / Wendy Luttrell -- Interactions of economics and spirituality: some perspectives from Creole culture / Deborah Clifton Hils -- Toward a human service economy / Richard A. Couto -- National economic renewal programs and their implications for Appalachia and the South / Steve Fisher -- Toward a new debate: development, democracy, and dignity / John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith, and Alex Willingham.
Worker organizing in South Carolina: a community-based approach / Charles D.M. Taylor -- Voting rights and community empowerment: political struggle in the Georgia Black Belt / Alex Willingham -- Race, development, and the character of Black political life in Bogalusa, Louisiana / Rickey Hill -- Economic slavery or hazardous wastes?: Robeson County's economic menu / Richard Regan and Mac Legerton -- The Mayhaw Tree: an informal case study in homegrown rural economic development / Ralph Hils -- Saturn: tomorrow's jobs, yesterday's myths / Carter Garber -- Environmentalism, economic blackmail, and civil rights: competing agendas within the Black community / Robert D. Bullard.
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Economic development projects-- Appalachian Region, Case studies.
Economic development projects-- Southern States, Case studies.
Projets de développement économique-- Appalaches-- Cas, Études de.
Projets de développement économique-- États-Unis (Sud)
Aufsatzsammlung
Economic development projects.
Economic history.
Strukturpolitik
Wirtschaftskrise
Appalachian Region, Economic conditions, Case studies.