Fighting Back in Appalachia Traditions of Resistance and Change

Name: Fighting Back in Appalachia Traditions of Resistance and Change
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ISBN: 9780877229773

ISBN-10: 0877229775

ISBN-13: 9780877229773

Edition: 1993

Authors: Stephen Fisher

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 1/21/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Building Grassroots Citizen Organizations



Stopping the Bulldozers: What Difference Did It Make?




Like a Flower Slowly Blooming: Highlander and the Nurturing of an Appalachian Movement




Racism and Organizing in Appalachia




From Fussin' to Organizing: Individual and Collective Resistance at Yellow Creek




Save Our Cumberland Mountains: Growth and Change within a Grassroots Organization




Practical Lessons in Community Organizing in Appalachia: What We've Learned at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth




The Community Farm Alliance in Kentucky: The Growth, Mistakes, and Lessons of the Farm Movement of the 1980s




New Strategies in Labor Struggles



Appalachian Women Fight Back: Organizational Approaches to Nontraditional Job Advocacy




The Memory of Miners and the Conscience of Capital: Coal Miners' Strikes as Free Spaces




Singing Across Dark Spaces: The Union/Community Takeover of Pittston's Moss 3 plant




The People's Respirator: Coalition Building and the Black Lung Association




Culture, Class, and Gender in Appalachian Resistance Movements



Sowing on the Mountain: Nurturing Cultural Roots and Creativity for Community Change




Engendering the Struggle: Women's Labor and Traditions of Resistance in Rural Southern Appalachia




Appalachian Studies, Resistance, and Postmodernism




Politics, Expressive Form, and Historical Knowledge in a Blue Ridge Resistance Movement




Conclusion: New Populist Theory and the Study of Dissent in Appalachia



Dissent in Appalachia: A Bibliography



Directory of Organizations


List of Contributors