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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Stop the bombs: local organizing with global reach / Ralph Hutchison -- RAIL solution: taking on Halliburton on the home front / Rees Shearer -- This land is your land: local organizing and the hegemony of growth / Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble -- Identity matters: building an urban Appalachian movement in Cincinnati / Phillip J. Obermiller [and others] -- Appalachian youth re-envisioning home, re-making identities / Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O'Doherty -- Resistance through community-based arts / Katie Maureen Mullinax -- Organizing Appalachian women: hope lies in the struggle / Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda McKinney -- The southern empowerment project: homegrown organizing gone too soon / Jane Rostan and Walter Davis -- Center for participatory change: cultivating grassrootssupport organizing / Craig White [and others] -- Faith-based coalitions and organized labor: new forms of collaboration in the twenty-first century? / Jill Kriesky and Daniel Swan -- Talking union in two languages: labor rights and immigrant workers in East Tennessee / Fran Ansley -- Virginia organizing: the action is at the state level / Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter -- OxyContin flood in coal fields: "searching for higher ground" / Sue Ella Kobak -- Not your grandmother's agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's agrifood activism / Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lisa Markowitz, and Dwight B. Billings -- Mountain justice / Cassie Robinson-Pfleger [and others] -- Who knows? Who tells? Creating a knowledge commons / Anita Puckett [and others] -- North and South: struggles over coal in Colombia and Appalachia / Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie -- Conclusions: transformations in place / Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Community organization -- Appalachian Region.
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Community organization. |
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Appalachian Region. |
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Social action -- Appalachian Region.
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Social action. |
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Political participation -- Appalachian Region.
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Political participation. |
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Appalachian Region -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fisher, Stephen L., 1944-
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Smith, Barbara Ellen, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Transforming places. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2012 9780252036668 (DLC) 2011027791 (OCoLC)741273625 |
| ISBN |
9780252093760 (electronic book) |
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0252093763 (electronic book) |
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0252036662 |
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9780252036668 |
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9780252078385 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0252078381 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613895134 |
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