Communities In Economic Crisis (Labor And Social Change)

336 Pages·1990·29.96 MB·English

by  John Gaventa

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Communities in Economic Crisis
Appalachia and the South
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Labor and Social Change,
aseries editedby PauLaRayman andCarmen Sirianni
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Communities
in Economic
Crisis
Appalachia and
the South
Edited by
JOHN GAVENTA
BARBARA ELLEN SMITH
ALEX WILLINGHAM
Temple University Press
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Chapter8, "BetrayalofTrust: TheImpactofEconomicDevelopmentUpon Working
Citizens," byJohn Bookser-Feisterand Leah Wise, © 1989Southerners for
Economic Justice, Inc.
Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122
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Communitiesineconomiccrisis: Appalachiaand theSouthIedited by
JohnGaventa, BarbaraEl1enSmith, Alex Wil1ingham.
p. cm. - (Laborand social change)
ISBN0-87722-650-4 :(alk. paper)
I. AppalachianRegion-Economicconditions-Case studies.
2. Economicdevelopment projects-AppalachianRegion-Case studies.
3. SouthernStates-Economicconditions-1945- -Casestudies.
4. Economicdevelopment projects-SouthernStates-Casestudies.
I. Gaventa,John, 1949- II. Smith, BarbaraE., 1951-
III. Wil1ingham, Alex w., 1940- IV. Series.
HC107.A127C65 1989 89-4575
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CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
Case Studies ofCrisis and Struggle
Case Studiesfrom CentralAppalachia
1 "ItHas to Come from the People":
Responding to PlantClosings in Ivanhoe, Virginia
Maxine Waller. Helen M. Lewis. ClareMcBrien. and
CarrollL. Wessinger 19
2 People Power: Working for the Future
in the EastKentucky Coalfields
Kristin LayngSzakos 29
3 Voices from the Coalfields:
How Miners' Families Understand the Crisis ofCoal
Mike Yarrow 38
4 Women Miners Can DigIt, Too!
BettyJean Hall 53
5 Organizing Women for Local Economic Development
Chris Weiss 61
Case Studiesfrom the Piedmont
6 Organizing Rural Tobacco Farmers:
Central Kentucky in Global Context
Hal Hamilton 73
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7 From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras:
ACase StudyofCapital Flight and Its Impacton Workers
John Gaventa 85
8 Betrayal ofTrust: The ImpactofEconomic Development Policy
upon Working Citizens
John Bookser-FeisterandLeah Wise 96
9 WorkerOrganizing in South Carolina:
ACommunity-Based Approach
CharLesD. M. TayLor 108
Case Studiesfrom the Deep South
10 Voting Rights and Community Empowerment:
Political Struggle in the Georgia Black Belt
ALex Willingham 123
11 Race, Development, and the CharacterofBlack Political Life
in Bogalusa, Louisiana
Rickey Hill 138
12 Economic Slavery orHazardous Wastes?
Robeson County's Economic Menu
RichardRegan andMac Legerton 146
13 The Mayhaw Tree: An Informal Case Study
in Homegrown Rural Economic Development
RaLph Hils 158
PART II
Visions for the Future
DeveLopment by Corporate Design
14 Saturn: Tomorrow's Jobs, Yesterday's Myths
CarterGarber 175
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CONTENTS VII
15 Environmentalism, Economic Blackmail, and Civil Rights:
Competing Agendas Within the Black Community
RobertD. BuLLard 190
16 New Work Force, New Organizing: The Experience ofWomen
Office Workers and9to5
Cindia Cameron 200
17 The Changing International Division ofLabor:
Links with Southern Africa
Ann Seidman 211
Visionsfor Change
18 Community-Based Economics Education:
A Personal, Cultural, and Political Project
Wendy LuttreLL 227
19 Interactions ofEconomics and Spirituality:
Some Perspectives from Creole Culture
Deborah Clifton Hils 242
20 Toward a Human Service Economy
RichardA. Couto 251
21 National Economic Renewal Programs and Their Implications
for Appalachia and the South
Steve Fisher 263
22 Toward a New Debate:
Development, Democracy, and Dignity
John Gaventa. Barbara ELLen Smith, andAlex Willingham 279
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