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<p>In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, <i>Making a Living</i> examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.<br><br>Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile “mill girls” in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading women in the Kansas and Neb
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- Author
- Chad Montrie
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781469606170
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Nature, Management
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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