Throwed Away

Failures of Progress in Eastern North Carolina

• Author(s): Linda Flowers,
• Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
• Pages: 241
• ISBN_10: 0870497677
  ISBN_13: 9780870497674
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , Business & Economics / Industries / General , Education / General , Education / Schools / Types / Public , History / United States / 20th Century , History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) , History / Social History , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Sociology / Rural , Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General ,

Description:... Flowers (English, North Carolina Wesleyan College) is not a sociologist, demographer, or historian. She is guided by personal memory and experience, reading and conversations, in this insightful study of the demise of tenant farming and the failures of industrialization in the rural South since 1960. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR