Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part III. Reinhabiting the poor farm in memory and landscape / Jennifer Westerman. Part I. Working for a living: class, justice, and environment : Raining in Vietnam : the personal politics of climate justice / Charles Waugh -- Working in nature, playing in wilderness : race, class, and environmental history in the Apostle Islands / James W. Feldman -- "The rich go higher" : the geography of rural development, fire management, and environmental justice in Utah's wildland urban interface / Jason Roberts -- Beyond boom and bust : recovering the place of Kootenay working-class stories / Christina Robertson -- Part II. The ways we work: toxic consequences : Requiem for landscape / Edie Steiner -- "Clean air, clean water, and jobs forever" : filming mountaintop removal coal mining / Terre Ryan -- Bright lights, big city ills : artificial light and the night shift / Paul Bogard -- From orchards to cubicles : work and space in the Silicon Valley / Debra J. Salazar -- Part III. The workers and the land: toward a just and sustainable future : "It's a different world" : using oral histories to explore working-class perceptions of environmental change / Peter Friederici -- Working wilderness : ranching, proprietary rights to nature, environmental justice, and climate change / Joni Adamson -- "Survival is triumph enough" : class, environmental consciousness, and the southern memoir / Scott Hicks -- Reinhabiting the poor farm in memory and landscape / Jennifer Westerman.
Summary:
"Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice is a collection of scholarly essays that examine the relationship between the exploitation of the working-class and environment injustices in the US and Canada. These scholars, from the fields of environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, seek to assess the current unprecedented rates of environmental degradation, expanding economic inequality, and wide-spread social injustice. Without dividing worker from wilderness, or labor from landscape, they present solutions to the global climate crisis. Ultimately, this book advances the idea of a working-class ecology that must be an integral part of achieving just and sustainable human development"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.