Smokestacks in the hills : rural-industrial workers in West Virginia / Lou Martin.

By:

Martin, Lou [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Working class in American historyPublisher: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780252097560
0252097564

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Smokestacks in the hillsDDC classification:

330.9754

LOC classification:

HC107.W5

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Contents:

A rural place and a rural people -- Building factories in the country -- Rise of the rural-industrial workers -- Prosperous, independent rural-industrial workers -- Work and identity in the factory and at home -- Movements for equality in a time of industrial restructuring -- Conclusion : Country people and capital mobility.

Summary: Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class - and what that meant for communities and for labor. The result is an illuminating consideration of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the erroneous but persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-231) and index.

Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class - and what that meant for communities and for labor. The result is an illuminating consideration of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the erroneous but persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures.