Fighting Back in Appalachia

by Fisher, Stephen L.

• ISBN13: 9780877229773
• ISBN10: 0877229775
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-21
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Author note: Stephen L. Fisher is Hawthorne Professor of Political Science at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.

Author Biography

Stephen L. Fisher is Hawthorne Professor of Political Science at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Building Grassroots Citizen Organizations
Stopping the Bulldozers: What Difference Did It Make?	p. 17
Like a Flower Slowly Blooming: Highlander and the Nurturing of an Appalachian Movement	p. 31
Racism and Organizing in Appalachia	p. 57
From Fussin' to Organizing: Individual and Collective Resistance at Yellow Creek	p. 69
Save Our Cumberland Mountains: Growth and Change within a Grassroots Organization	p. 85
Practical Lessons in Community Organizing in Appalachia: What We've Learned at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth	p. 101
The Community Farm Alliance in Kentucky: The Growth, Mistakes, and Lessons of the Farm Movement of the 1980s	p. 123
New Strategies in Labor Struggles
Appalachian Women Fight Back: Organizational Approaches to Nontraditional Job Advocacy	p. 151
The Memory of Miners and the Conscience of Capital: Coal Miners' Strikes as Free Spaces	p. 165
Singing Across Dark Spaces: The Union/Community Takeover of Pittston's Moss 3 plant	p. 195
The People's Respirator: Coalition Building and the Black Lung Association	p. 225
Culture, Class, and Gender in Appalachian Resistance Movements
Sowing on the Mountain: Nurturing Cultural Roots and Creativity for Community Change	p. 245
Engendering the Struggle: Women's Labor and Traditions of Resistance in Rural Southern Appalachia	p. 263
Appalachian Studies, Resistance, and Postmodernism	p. 283
Politics, Expressive Form, and Historical Knowledge in a Blue Ridge Resistance Movement	p. 303
Conclusion: New Populist Theory and the Study of Dissent in Appalachia	p. 317
Dissent in Appalachia: A Bibliography	p. 339
Directory of Organizations	p. 361
List of Contributors	p. 363
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