Download PDF by Ann E. Kingsolver: Tobacco Town Futures: Global Encounters in Rural Kentucky

By Ann E. Kingsolver

ISBN-10: 1577667085

ISBN-13: 9781577667087

located among the foothills of Appalachia to the east and bluegrass nation to the west, Nicholas County has been domestic to small tobacco farms in rural Kentucky for the prior two hundred years. yet now, in the course of large financial adjustments generated by means of the flow of either cloth jobs and tobacco construction to different international locations, citizens of Nicholas County face an doubtful destiny. in accordance with twenty-five years of analysis, Kingsolver’s longitudinal ethnography of Nicholas County, her domestic group, synthesizes geographical, historic, financial, and political approaches that experience formed lifeways and worldviews. She files the views of farmers, manufacturing unit employees, politicians, these pursuing new niches within the hard work industry, and center institution scholars looking for “alternative futures.” Countering stereotypes, Kingsolver emphasizes the talents and organization of rural citizens and demonstrates how humans in largely dispersed and doubtless remoted groups on the earth are attached via capitalist good judgment and perform, thereby illuminating globalization’s far-reaching effects.

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