Working on earth : class and environmental justice /
Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice is a collection of scholarly essays that examine the relationship between the exploitation of the working-class and environment injustices in the United States and Canada. These scholars, from the fields of environmental humanities and environmental...
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Toward a working-class ecology / Christina Robertson and Jennifer Westerman
- Raining in Vietnam : the personal politics of climate justice / Charles Waugh
- Working in nature, playing in wilderness : race, class, and environmental history in the Apostle Islands / James W. Feldman
- "The rich go higher" : the geography of rural development, fire management, and environmental justice in Utah's wildland urban interface / Jason Roberts
- Beyond boom and bust : recovering the place of Kootenay working-class stories / Christina Robertson
- Requiem for landscape / Edie Steiner -"Clean air, clean water, and jobs forever" : filming mountaintop removal coal mining / Terre Ryan
- Bright lights, big city ills : artificial light and the night shift / Paul Bogard
- From orchards to cubicles : work and space in the Silicon Valley / Debra J. Salazar
- "It's a different world" : using oral histories to explore working-class perceptions of environmental change / Peter Friederici
- Working wilderness : ranching, proprietary rights to nature, environmental justice, and climate change / Joni Adamson
- "Survival is triumph enough" : class, environmental consciousness, and the southern memoir / Scott Hicks
- Reinhabiting the poor farm in memory and landscape / Jennifer Westerman.