Tobacco town futures
Subtitle: global encounters in rural Kentucky
By: Ann E. Kingsolver, University of South Carolina
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Long Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781577667087
Subjects: International business enterprises; Globalization; Economic conditions; Working class; Economic aspects; Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: stories of globalization in a tobacco town; title: Fieldwork in Nicholas County; title: "Placing" a Kentucky community; title: Rurality and farming identity and practices; title: Development: planning for tobacco town futures; title: Documentation dilemmas in the project; title: The landscape of this book; title: Questions for students; title: Tobacco: a global crop; title: An afternoon in tobacco in 1988: storm coming; title: Tobacco: local leaves in a global commodities and labor market; title: "Tobacco town" livelihoods; title: Moralizing tobacco; title: Changes in the national tobacco program and global industry; title: Questions for students; title: Development plans: living on the edge; title: A proposal ahead of its time; title: State-led development planning; title: Textiles; title: Toyota; title: Tourism; title: Working the edge: joining Appalachia; title: Commodifying rurality; title: Developing agricultural alternatives; title: Questions for; title: Students; title: How to live in a small town; title: Incorporating diversity; title: Networks, for better or worse, and the role of media; title: Civil participation; title: Flexible justice; title: Sites of socialization; title: Global encounters; title: Questions for students; title: Tobacco town futures; title: Loretta Mann; title: Mike Phillips; title: Betty Gates Poe; title: Jim and Kathy Caswell; title: Three Springs Farm: David Wagoner and Arwen Donahue; title: Postscript: students essays on the future of Nicholas County.