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Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States.

Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States.(Book review)

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Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2008)

HISTORY IS fundamentally the story of humans transforming the natural world through their labours. And yet, despite the deep connections between human work and the natural environment, this relationship--"the core element of human history," in Chad Montrie's opinion--has largely been neglected by modern historians. (129) The specialization of academic subfields has meant that labour historians have focused primarily upon labourers and the labour movement while environmental historians have focused primarily upon the environment and the environmental movement. Never the twain shall meet. Montrie's Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States seeks to bridge this historiographical gap and "tell a story that should resonate with scholars working in both environmental and labor history." (8)

In six short essays examining textile mill girls in Lowell, slaves and sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, female homesteaders in Kansas and Nebraska, coal miners in Appalachia, autoworkers in Detroit,...

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