Making a Living(English, Hardcover, Montrie Chad)

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Making a Living(English, Hardcover, Montrie Chad) is written by Montrie Chad and published by The University of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807831972 (ISBN 10) and 9780807831977 (ISBN 13).

This title looks at the impact of workers' rights struggles on the environmental movement.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, homesteading women in the Kansas and Nebraska grasslands, native-born coal miners in southern Appalachia, auto-workers 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.Filled with poignant and illuminating vignettes, "Making a Living" provides new insights into the intersection of the labor movement and environmentalism in America.