Yesterday and Today ... a Highway History of West Virginia from Colonial Time to the Present
Author: West Virginia. Department of Highways
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Published: 1973
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Author: West Virginia. Department of Highways
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Published: 1973
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Published: 1978*
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lou Martin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-10-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0252097564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong 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. As Martin shows, access to land in and around steel and pottery towns allowed residents to preserve rural habits and culture. Workers in these places valued place and local community. Because of their belief in localism, an individualistic ethic of "making do," and company loyalty, they often worked to place limits on union influence. At the same time, this localism allowed workers to adapt to the dictates of industrial capitalism and a continually changing world on their own terms--and retain rural ways to a degree unknown among their urbanized peers. Throughout, Martin ties these themes to illuminating discussions of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures. Revealing and incisive, Smokestacks in the Hills reappraises an overlooked stratum of American labor history and contributes to the ongoing dialogue on shifts in national politics in the postwar era.
Author: West Virginia. State Road Commission
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Published: 1967*
Total Pages: 23
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: West Virginia. Department of Archives and History
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 456
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 814
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Ellsworth Fast
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: West Virginia. Department of Public Roads
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 15
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