{"product_id":"the-road-to-poverty-the-making-of-wealth-and-hardship-in-appalachia-paperback-9780521655460","title":"The Road to Poverty; The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (Paperback) 9780521655460","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Road to Poverty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDwight B. Billings (Author), Kathleen M. Blee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521655460, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 January 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e452 pages, 23 b\/w illus.  5 maps  29 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'It is a book built on patient research and observation, which will reward the patient reading of scholars and activists elsewhere trying to build community alternatives to clientelism.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eKathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay County, an especially poor section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. The authors uncover the systemic problems and patterns of low income by tracing its socio-cultural, economic, and political development of Clay County from its earliest non-native settlement and agricultural development, to the advent of the coal industry, to the present day. This study of the long-term, institutional basis of rural poverty contains some fascinating, new local historical detail, based upon the authors' meticulous archival research. This book makes an important contribution to basic research on inequality - pointing to the shortcomings of treating symptomatic problems of low income, while failing to address systemic ones - at a time when American policymakers are struggling to design and implement effective programs to move people from welfare to work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface and acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Public Policy and Historical Sociology: 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Antebellum Capitalist Markets: 2. Fronier Kentucky in the capitalist world system\u003cbr\u003e 3. Industry, commerce, and slaveholding\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Antebellum State Coercion: 4. State making and the origins of elite conflict\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Cultural Strategies: 5. The patriarchal moral economy of agriculture\u003cbr\u003e 6. Racial dynamics and the creation of poverty\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Postbellum Capitalist Markets and the Local State: 7. From marginality to integration\u003cbr\u003e 8. Feud violence\u003cbr\u003e 9. Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e], Poverty  \u0026amp; unemployment [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Poverty  \u0026amp; unemployment\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Poverty%20%20\u0026amp;%20unemployment%20%5BJFFA%5D%22\"\u003eJFFA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005930393880,"sku":"9780521655460","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521655460i_654711bf-1bcf-4a74-823b-52c5cbf85f0d.jpg?v=1691379587","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-road-to-poverty-the-making-of-wealth-and-hardship-in-appalachia-paperback-9780521655460","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}