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Author Strange, Jason G., author.

Title Shelter from the machine : homesteaders in the age of capitalism / Jason G. Strange.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 304 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Heaven in a flower -- You can see other people's poop -- A buzzel about Kantuck -- You can't eat scenery -- Never seen so much hair in your life -- Ain't nothin' in them books -- I haven't felt my hands in years -- Hard living -- Don't need their coal -- Epilogue: Without a chief.
Summary "'You're either buried with your crystals or your shotgun.' That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today. Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society -- only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Self-reliant living -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Self-reliant living.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Self-reliant living -- Kentucky.
Kentucky.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky.
Subsistence economy -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Subsistence economy.
Subsistence economy -- Kentucky.
Sociology, Rural -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Sociology, Rural.
Sociology, Rural -- Kentucky.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Kentucky -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Rural conditions.
United States.
Rural conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Strange, Jason G.. Shelter from the machine Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020] 9780252043031 (DLC) 2019032949
ISBN 9780252051890 electronic book
0252051890 electronic book
9780252043031 hardcover
9780252084898 paperback