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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Resisting injustice in Appalachia and empowering residents to build democratic alternatives to the heritage of enduring poverty<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877226499&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="674_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Communities in Economic Crisis</h1>
<H2>Appalachia and the South</H2>
<h3>edited by John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith and Alex Willingham</h3>
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<BR> 336 pp
</P><p>Hard times are no stranger to the people of Appalachia and the South. Earlier books have documented the low wages of the textile industry, boom-and-bust cycles of coal mining, and debt peonage of Southern agriculture that have established a heritage of poverty that endures. This book is a unique collection of essays by people who are actively involved in the efforts to challenge economic injustice in these regions and to empower the residents to build democratic alternatives.
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p><b>Part I: Case Studies of Crisis and Struggle</b>
<br>1. "It Has to Come from the People": Responding to Plant Closings in Ivanhoe, Virginia — Maxine Waller, Helen M. Lewis, Clare McBrien, and Carroll Wessings
<br>2. People Power: Working for the Future in the East Kentucky Coalfields — Kristin Layng Szakos
<br>3. Voices from the Coalfields: How Miners� Families Understand the Crisis of Coal — Mike Yarrow
<br>4. "Women Miners Can Dig It Too!" — Betty Jean Hall
<br>5. Organizing Women for Local Economic Development — Chris Weiss
<br>6. Organizing Rural Farmers: Central Kentucky in Global Context — Hal Hamilton
<br>7. From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras: A Case Study of Capital Flight and Its impact on Workers — John Gaventa
<br>8. A Betrayal of Trust: The Impact of Economic Development Policy Upon Working Citizens — John Bookser-Feister and Leah Wise
<br>9. Alternative Worker Organizing in South Carolina — Charles Taylor
<br>10. Voting Rights and Community Empowerment: Political Struggle in the Georgia Black Belt — Alex Willingham
<br>11. Race, Development, and the Character of Black Political Life in Bogalusa, Louisiana — Rickey Hill
<br>12. Economic Slavery or Hazardous Wastes: Robenson County�s Economic Menu— Richard Regan and Mac Legerton
<br>13. The Mayhew Tree: An Informal Case Study in Homegrown Economic Development — Ralph Hils
<p><b>Part II: Visions for the Future</b>
<br>14. Saturn: Tomorrow�s Jobs, Yesterday�s Wages and Myths — Carter Garber
<br>15. Environmentalism, Economic Blackmail, and Civil Rights: Competing Agendas Within the Black Community — Robert D. Bullard
<br>16. New Workforce; New Organizing: The Experience of Women Office Workers and 9 to 5 — Cindia Cameron
<br>17. The Changing International Division of Labor: Links with Southern Africa — Ann Seidmun
<br>18. Economics Education, a Cultural and Political Project — Wendy Luttrell
<br>19. Naming the Problem: Some Perspectives from Creole Culture — Deborah Clifton Hils
<br>20. Towards a Human Needs Economy — Richard A. Couto
<br>21. National Economic Renewal Programs and Their Implications for Economic Development in Appalachia and the South — Steve Fisher
<br>22. Toward a New Debate: Development, Democracy, and Dignity — the editors
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>John Gaventa</b> is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a staff member of the Highlander Research and Education Center.</P>
<P><b>Barbara Ellen Smith</b> is former Research Coordinator of the Southeast Women�s Employment Coalition and the author of <I>Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease</I> (Temple).</P>
<P><b>Alex Willingham</b> is Research Director of the Southern Regional Council.</P>
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<BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/labor_change.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Labor and Social Change</a></i>, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni.
</p><p><i>Labor and Social Change</i>, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni, includes books on workplace issues like worker participation, quality of work life, shorter hours, technological change, and productivity, as well as union and community organizing and ethnographies of particular occupations.</p>
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