Two Sides to Everthing: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky (S U N Y Series in Oral and Public History) - Couverture souple

Scott, Shaunna L.

 
9780791423448: Two Sides to Everthing: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky (S U N Y Series in Oral and Public History)
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ISBN 10 : 0791423441 ISBN 13 : 9780791423448
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1995

Synopsis

An ethnography and oral history of miners and their families in Kentucky focusing on political ideology and working class consciousness

This is an oral history and ethnography of miners and their families in Kentucky focusing on political ideology and working class consciousness.

Harlan County, Kentucky emerged in the public eye during the 1930s when poverty, unemployment, and violent unionization struggles caught the attention of the national news media and the American people. It burst on the scene again during the 1972-73 Brookside strike, an event chronicled in the Academy Award-winning film, "Harlan County, U.S.A." In this book the author brings the American reader up to date on this interesting community by documenting the everyday lives of Harlan miners and their families in the mid-1980s.

Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Two Sides to Everything characterizes the nature, limitations, and transformative potential of class consciousness among two generations of Harlan miners. It also elucidates the apparent contradictions between popular images of central Appalachians, as militant labor activists, on one hand, and passive, traditional, fatalistic "hillbillies," on the other. The book accomplishes these tasks through a systematic consideration of the relationship between the central experiential bases and sources of identity among Harlan county miners-class, kinship, community, religion, and gender.

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À propos de l?auteur

Shaunna L. Scott is Assistant Professor of Sociology and an Associate of The Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0791423441
ISBN 13 
9780791423448
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
294
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780791423431: Two Sides to Everthing: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky

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ISBN 10 :  0791423433 ISBN 13 :  9780791423431
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1995
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