The road to poverty
the making of wealth and hardship in Appalachia
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Author
Contributions
- Blee, Kathleen M. - Contributor
Publication
2000 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
108,500 words, Guess
Page Count
434 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL388410M
- ISBN-100521652294
- OCLC Control Number40347543
- OCLC Control Numberroadtopovertymak0000bill
- Library of Congress Control Number98051561
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- Goodreads4896900
- LibraryThing8455325
Classifications
- DDC330.974/044
- LCCHC107.A127 B55 2000
Alternate Titles
- Making of wealth and hardship in Appalachia
Description
"Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee examine the making of wealth and inequality in persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay Country, an especially poor section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. Though this area has been the target of repeated antipoverty and economic development programs, few of these have had a lasting impact. The authors uncover the systemic problems and patterns of low income by tracing the economic, sociocultural, and political development of Clay County from early agricultural and industrial development in the nineteenth century to the advent of the timber and coal industry in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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