The Gritty Berkshires: A People's History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA b
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
- Inscribed
- NO
- ISBN
- 9781887043397
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
White River Press
ISBN-10
188704339X
ISBN-13
9781887043397
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038701423
Product Key Features
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Economic Conditions, Manufacturing
Book Title
Gritty Berkshires : a People's History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass Moca
Publication Year
2018
Number of Pages
633 Pages
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2018-030737
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
974.4/1
Synopsis
As The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts' westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. For generations of working class families who have lived in the northern part of this county, their reality looks more like Rust Belt America. Maynard Seider, an activist sociologist who has taught and researched in the area for more than three decades, places the history of the North Berkshire region in the context of U.S. and global history. Through the use of oral histories, union archives, newspaper accounts and participant observation, the author focuses on the 1,000 men who built the nation's longest railroad tunnel, the thousands of men and women who worked in its textile mills and electronics factories and who struck, built worker co-ops, and community coalitions to improve their daily lives. In this history, we learn how the Berkshires offer insight into so many crucial aspects of the American experience. Moving from the early 1800s to the present, Seider weaves a narrative that details the area's vibrant immigrant history, slavery's role in its textile industry, the battle for national unions and the ideological struggles with corporate elites over who best speaks for the community. Enriched by dozens of photographs, these stories focus on the voices of ordinary people as they often do extraordinary things. Seider concludes his book by considering the question of "What's next?" through a case study of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). These brick buildings which housed generations of blue and white collar workers until 1986 now attract tourists to the country's largest contemporary art collection. Yet the unanswered question remains, can a tourist-service economy provide a meaningful and economically sustainable life for its residents? The Gritty Berkshires' last section deals with this question both nationally and locally, exploring diverse responses amidst the nation's growing inequality, militarism and cutbacks in social services.
LC Classification Number
F72.B5S45 2018
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