{"product_id":"smokestacks-in-the-hills-lou-martin-9780252081026","title":"Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia","description":"Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class--and what that meant for communities and for labor. \u003cp\u003eAs Martin shows, access to land in and around steel and pottery towns allowed residents to preserve rural habits and culture. Workers in these places valued place and local community. Because of their belief in localism, an individualistic ethic of \"making do,\" and company loyalty, they often worked to place limits on union influence. At the same time, this localism allowed workers to adapt to the dictates of industrial capitalism and a continually changing world on their own terms--and retain rural ways to a degree unknown among their urbanized peers. Throughout, Martin ties these themes to illuminating discussions of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevealing and incisive, \u003ci\u003eSmokestacks in the Hills\u003c\/i\u003e reappraises an overlooked stratum of American labor history and contributes to the ongoing dialogue on shifts in national politics in the postwar era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lou Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252081021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252081026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Lou Martin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437885665535,"sku":"9780252081026","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f986c317-52e1-4cc0-a13b-807e93354885.jpg?v=1777167434","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/smokestacks-in-the-hills-lou-martin-9780252081026","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}