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global encounters in rural Kentucky

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Tobacco town futures
Ann E. Kingsolver
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global encounters in rural Kentucky

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Waveland Press, Inc.
Language
English
Pages
183

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Subjects
International business enterprises, Globalization, Economic conditions, Working class, Economic aspects, Economic history, Working class, united states, Kentucky, economic conditions
Places
Carlisle (Ky.), Nicholas County, Nicholas County (Ky.), Kentucky, Carlisle

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Tobacco town futures: global encounters in rural Kentucky
2011, Waveland Press, Inc.
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Table of Contents

Introduction: stories of globalization in a tobacco town
Fieldwork in Nicholas County
"Placing" a Kentucky community
Rurality and farming identity and practices
Development: planning for tobacco town futures
Documentation dilemmas in the project
The landscape of this book
Questions for students
Tobacco: a global crop
An afternoon in tobacco in 1988: storm coming
Tobacco: local leaves in a global commodities and labor market
"Tobacco town" livelihoods
Moralizing tobacco
Changes in the national tobacco program and global industry
Questions for students
Development plans: living on the edge
A proposal ahead of its time
State-led development planning
Textiles
Toyota
Tourism
Working the edge: joining Appalachia
Commodifying rurality
Developing agricultural alternatives
Questions for
Students
How to live in a small town
Incorporating diversity
Networks, for better or worse, and the role of media
Civil participation
Flexible justice
Sites of socialization
Global encounters
Questions for students
Tobacco town futures
Loretta Mann
Mike Phillips
Betty Gates Poe
Jim and Kathy Caswell
Three Springs Farm: David Wagoner and Arwen Donahue
Postscript: students essays on the future of Nicholas County.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.

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Long Grove, Ill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.9769417
Library of Congress
HC107.K42 N5 2011, HC107.K42N5 2011

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Pagination
x, 183 pages
Number of pages
183

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30836241M
ISBN 10
1577667085
ISBN 13
9781577667087
LCCN
2015410648
OCLC/WorldCat
682893380

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