商品簡介
Through the example of the glass industry, Fones-Wolf (history, West Virginia U.) explores the development of West Virginia from 1890 to the 1930s and why, despite an abundance of natural resources, the region was left with an underdeveloped economy. Following an examination of the restructuring of various branches of the glass industry in the late-19th century, the text contains a series of case studies of the region and specific communities meant to benefit from restructuring, in an attempt to appreciate the efforts made but also to understand the limitations of indigenous groups in forming a different political economy. For students and scholars of American and labor history. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Ken Fones-Wolf is a professor of history at West Virginia University. He is coeditor of Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940 and author or editor of three other books.
