Road to Poverty - The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

Zusammenfassung This book makes an important contribution to basic research on inequality - pointing to the shortcomings of treating symptomatic problems of low income! while failing to address systemic ones - at a time when American policymakers are struggling to design and implement effective programs to move people from welfare to work. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; Part I. Public Policy and Historical Sociology: 1. Introduction; Part II. Antebellum Capitalist Markets: 2. Fronier Kentucky in the capitalist world system; 3. Industry, commerce, and slaveholding; Part III. Antebellum State Coercion: 4. State making and the origins of elite conflict; Part IV. Cultural Strategies: 5. The patriarchal moral economy of agriculture; 6. Racial dynamics and the creation of poverty; Part V. Postbellum Capitalist Markets and the Local State: 7. From marginality to integration; 8. Feud violence; 9. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Dwight B. Billings, Dwight B. (University of Kentucky) Blee Billings, Dwight B. Blee Billings, Kathleen M. Blee
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2000
• EAN: 9780521655460
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65546-0
• No. of pages: 452
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education