To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jessica WilkersonSeries:Working Class in American HistoryPublish date:2018-12-30Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Illinois PressISBN-13:9780252083907ISBN-10:252083903UPC:9780252083907Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Labor & Industrial Relations, Public PolicyBook Topic:Environmental PolicySize:9.00 x 5.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC7JRENV8R
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service.
Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and...
Series: Working Class in American History
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Illinois PressISBN-13:9780252083907ISBN-10:252083903UPC:9780252083907Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Labor & Industrial Relations, Public PolicyBook Topic:Environmental PolicySize:9.00 x 5.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC7JRENV8R
Jessica Wilkerson is an associate professor and Joyce and Stuart Robbins Chair in the Department of History at West Virginia University.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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