Communities In Economic Crisis

John Gaventa is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a staff member of the Highlander Research and Education Center. Barbara Ellen Smith is former Research Coordinator of the Southeast Women's Employment Coalition and the author of Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease (Temple). Alex Willingham is Research Director of the Southern Regional Council.

Part I: Case Studies of Crisis and Struggle 1. "It Has to Come from the People": Responding to Plant Closings in Ivanhoe, Virginia - Maxine Waller, Helen M. Lewis, Clare McBrien, and Carroll Wessings 2. People Power: Working for the Future in the East Kentucky Coalfields - Kristin Layng Szakos 3. Voices from the Coalfields: How Miners' Families Understand the Crisis of Coal - Mike Yarrow 4. "Women Miners Can Dig It Too!" - Betty Jean Hall 5. Organizing Women for Local Economic Development - Chris Weiss 6. Organizing Rural Farmers: Central Kentucky in Global Context - Hal Hamilton 7. From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras: A Case Study of Capital Flight and Its impact on Workers - John Gaventa 8. A Betrayal of Trust: The Impact of Economic Development Policy Upon Working Citizens - John Bookser-Feister and Leah Wise 9. Alternative Worker Organizing in South Carolina - Charles Taylor 10. Voting Rights and Community Empowerment: Political Struggle in the Georgia Black Belt - Alex Willingham 11. Race, Development, and the Character of Black Political Life in Bogalusa, Louisiana - Rickey Hill 12. Economic Slavery or Hazardous Wastes: Robenson County's Economic Menu- Richard Regan and Mac Legerton 13. The Mayhew Tree: An Informal Case Study in Homegrown Economic Development - Ralph Hils Part II: Visions for the Future 14. Saturn: Tomorrow's Jobs, Yesterday's Wages and Myths - Carter Garber 15. Environmentalism, Economic Blackmail, and Civil Rights: Competing Agendas Within the Black Community - Robert D. Bullard 16. New Workforce; New Organizing: The Experience of Women Office Workers and 9 to 5 - Cindia Cameron 17. The Changing International Division of Labor: Links with Southern Africa - Ann Seidmun 18. Economics Education, a Cultural and Political Project - Wendy Luttrell 19. Naming the Problem: Some Perspectives from Creole Culture - Deborah Clifton Hils 20. Towards a Human Needs Economy - Richard A. Couto 21. National Economic Renewal Programs and Their Implications for Economic Development in Appalachia and the South - Steve Fisher 22. Toward a New Debate: Development, Democracy, and Dignity - the editors