| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Encounters -- 1. Introduction: The Other American Culture -- 2. The Valley -- 3. Local Knowledge -- 4. Local History -- pt. II. The Gospel of Work -- 5. The Remingtons of Ilion -- 6. The Remington Success -- 7. The Remington Failure -- pt. III. The Corporate Regime -- 8. Cultural Revolution -- 9. The Gospel of Wealth -- 10. Learning to Expect Hard Times -- 11. Wealth against Commonwealth -- App. 1. Theoretical and Methodological Orientations -- App. 2. Local Historical Sources and Abbreviations. |
| Summary |
"Worked Over is about large-scale social change seen at close range, through the lives of generations of working people in a small manufacturing center [comprising the Mohawk River Valley towns of Herkimer, Ilion, Frankfort, and Mohawk] along New York State's old Erie Canal ... [T]he Remington company, maker of arms and typewriters among other things, was for many years the backbone of a thriving regional society. Corporate takeover of the varied Remington enterprises in 1886 ushered in a century of social distress and decreasing political autonomy. Since the 1970s, the area has suffered mightily from deindustrialization."--Back cover. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2018). |
| Subject |
E. Remington & Sons -- History.
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Big business -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
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Social values -- New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
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Local government -- New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
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Distributive justice -- New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781501711206 (electronic bk.) |
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1501711202 (electronic bk.) |
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