Working The Land

Author : Nicola Verdon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137316745

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This book offers a new history of the farmworker in England from 1850 to the present day. It focuses on the paid worker, considering how the experiences of farm work – the work performed, wages earned and conditions of hiring – were shaped by gender, age and region. Combining data extracted from statistical sources with personal and autobiographical accounts, it places the individual farmworker back into a broader collective history. Beginning in the mid-Victorian era, when farmworkers were the most numerically significant occupational group in England, it considers the impact of economic, technological and social change on the scale and nature of farm work over the next hundred and fifty years, whilst also highlighting the continuation of some practices, including the use of casual and migrant workers to perform low-paid, seasonal work. Written in a lively and accessible manner, this book will appeal to those with an interest in rural history, gender history and modern British history.

Author : Sandra K. Schackel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700617807

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Working the Land by Sandra K. Schackel Pdf

Helen Tiegs didn't take to driving a tractor when she became a farmer's wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation. Lila Hill taught piano, then ultimately took a job off the farm to augment the family income during a period of rising costs. From Montana's cattle pastures to New Mexico's sagebrush mesas, women on today's ranches and farms have played a crucial role in a way of life that is slowly disappearing from the western landscape. Recalling her own family-farm ties, Sandra Schackel set out to learn how these women's lives have changed over the second half of the twentieth century. In Working the Land, she collects oral histories from more than forty women—in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas—recalling their experiences as ranchers and farmers in a modernizing West. Through this diverse group of women—white and Hispanic, rich and poor, ranging in age from 24 to 83—we gain a new perspective on their ties to the land. Although western ranch and farm women have often been portrayed as secondary figures who devoted themselves to housekeeping in support of their husbands' labors, Schackel's interviews reveal that these women have had a much more active role in defining what we know as the modern American West. As Schackel listened to their stories, she found several currents running through their recollections, such as the satisfaction found in living the rural lifestyle and the flexibility of gender roles. She also learned how resourceful women developed new ways to make their farms work—by including tourism, summer camps, and bed-and-breakfast operations—and how many have become activists for land-based issues. And while some like Lila made the difficult decision to work off the farm, such sacrifices have enabled families to hold onto their beloved land. Rich with memory and insight into what makes America's family farms and ranches tick, Working the Land provides a deeper understanding of the West's development over the last fifty years along with new perspectives on shifting attitudes toward women in the workforce. It is both a long-overdue documentation of the lives of hard-working farm women and a celebration of their contributions to a truly American way of life.

Author : Jamie L. Bronstein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804734518

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Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 by Jamie L. Bronstein Pdf

By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen our understanding of the social, political, and economic history of both countries in the nineteenth century. Although divided by their diverse experiences of industrialization, and living in countries with different amounts of available land, many working people in both Britain and the United States dreamed of free or inexpensive land to release them from the grim conditions of the 1840’s: depressing, overcrowded cities, low wages or unemployment, and stifling lives. Focusing on the Chartist Land Company, the Potters’ Joint-Stock Emigration Society, and the American National Reform movement, this study analyses the ideas that motivated workers to turn to land reform, the creation of working-class land reform cultures and identities among both men and women, and the international communication that enabled the formation of a transatlantic movement. Though there were similarities in the ideas behind the land reform movements, in their organizational strategies, and in their relationships with other reform movements in the two countries, the author’s examination of their grassroots constituencies reveals key differences. In the United States, land reformers included small proprietors as well as artisans and factory workers. In Britain, by contrast, at least a quarter of Chartist Land Company participants lived in cotton-manufacturing towns, strongholds of unpropertied workers and radical activity. When the land reform movements came into contact with the organs of the press and government, the differences in membership became crucial. The Chartist Land Company was repressed by a government alarmed at the prospect of workers’ autonomy, and the Potters’ Joint-Stock Emigration Society died the natural death of straitened finances, but the American land reform movement experienced some measure of success—so much so that during the revolution in American political parties during the 1850’s, land reform, once a radical issue, became a mainstream plank in the Republican platform

Author : Nancy Konvalinka
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783593396613

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Gender, Work and Property by Nancy Konvalinka Pdf

Why do young men born in many small villages in Spain tend, at the end of the twentieth century, to stay there to live, often remaining unmarried, while young women from the same villages tend to leave? In Gender, Work, and Property, Nancy Konvalinka explores this phenomenon using the case of one small village in northwestern Spain, and she extrapolates her findings there to understand similar processes elsewhere in Europe. The changes in this village are analyzed and documented through long-term ethnographic research, participant observation, interviews, kinship diagrams, life-course models, and archive study in order to help bring the village alive for the reader.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D02059275X

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Working Land Conservation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Pdf

Author : Andrea Cattaneo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Agricultural conservation
ISBN : UIUC:30112075354800

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Flexible Conservation Measures on Working Land by Andrea Cattaneo Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422324362

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Working land conservation : Conservation Security Program and Environmental Quality Incentives Program : hearing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bella Bathurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788162145

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Field Work by Bella Bathurst Pdf

Author : Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822944256

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Cultivating Victory by Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant Pdf

A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women's Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women's ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women's Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Hawaiians
ISBN : PSU:000017413817

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Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Author : Stephanie Land
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316505109

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Maid by Stephanie Land Pdf

"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide (Barack Obama)," this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a great one." At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit. "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work." -PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List

Author : Massimiliano Mollona
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204346

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Brazilian Steel Town by Massimiliano Mollona Pdf

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city’s economy, and consequently its citizen’s lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Author : Charlie Pye-Smith,Richard North
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X001082144

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Working the Land by Charlie Pye-Smith,Richard North Pdf

Prosaic plea for a fundamental renewal of agriculture

Author : Nathalie Kermoal ,Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771990417

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Living on the Land by Nathalie Kermoal ,Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez Pdf

From a variety of methodological perspectives, contributors to Living on the Land explore the nature and scope of Indigenous women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships, both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape. The authors discuss the integral role of women as stewards of the land and governors of the community and points to a distinctive set of challenges and possibilities for Indigenous women and their communities.

Author : Jaron Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015076831364

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Towards Land, Work & Power by Jaron Browne Pdf

After years of building a fighting organization of welfare recipients, domestic workers, shoe shiners, child care workers, security guards, unemployed workers and other no- and low-wage workers, the organizers and leaders of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) realized that we couldn't answer some basic questions: What is the nature of the world's political economy? How are our campaigns for racial, economic and gender justice impacted by neo-liberalism and imperialism? What will it take to build a movement in such despondent and challenging times?In 2004, the members of POWER's Committee for Working Class Leadership and Strategy decided to answer these questions. We wanted to make sure that we had the skills necessary to develop strategy for our own organization and to help to develop strategy for the movement. This book is the result.Towards Land, Work & Power is a book by conscious organizers for conscious organizers. Rooted in our experiences building a membership organization in San Francisco's working class communities, Towards Land, Work & Powerrepresents four organizers' attempt to assess the racist, sexist, homophobic and inherently exploitative system of imperialism. Ending with an alternative vision for San Francisco and the world, the book attempts to equip us with what we will need to move towards land, work and power for all."You hold in your hands one of the most important critical analyses of neoliberalism, U.S. empire, and the impact they are having on the urban working poor and people of color. But this compact and readable book packs much more than a brilliant critique of the current economic and political crises. Instead, Towards Land, Work & Power offers a strategy-a sophisticated anti-imperialist strategy that pays attention to race, gender, culture, community, immigration, and international solidarity. Veterans of many years of community and labor organizing in the San Francisco area, the folks at POWER understand "power," and what it means to fight back in the belly of the beast. This book ought to be mandatory reading for anyone committed to a politics of transformation." [Robin D. G. Kelley]