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The Road to Poverty, Blee, Kathleen M.,Billings, Dwight B., 9780521655460
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- Book Title
- The Road to Poverty
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521655463
ISBN-13
9780521655460
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1050316
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
452 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Road to Poverty : the Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia
Subject
United States / State & Local / General, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
98-051561
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
'Inquiry into Appalachian poverty has too long been held captive to cultural stereotypes and untested assumptions. In their illuminating study, Billings and Blee dispell many of these falsehoods and document how Appalachia's tragic past continues to haunt its tortured present. Poverty is not a natural condition either of individuals or regions, and by situating the early history of Appalachian in the dynamics of global capitalism, Billings and Blee demonstrate how Appalachia was made poor. This is an important book for social scientists and historians and essential for all students of Appalachia and regional development more generally.'Larry Griffin, Vanderbilt University, "Billings and Blee have together researched and written a fine cultural and economic history of Clay County, Kentucky...The authors have certainly suceeded in bringing alive the nineteenth-century economic and cultural history of Clay County." EH.NET July 01, ‘Billings and Blee support their often fascinating and at times incredible report with a wealth of archival and contemporary data, grounded in a theoretically comprehensive and thoughtful analysis. Their book is a real eye opener for anyone who has ever wondered why Appalachia is, and has long been, so poor.’Herbert Gans, Columbia University, "Billings and Blee are courageous in their mixing of genres, and the payoffs are this careful empirical study of Appalachia, which will appeal to social theorists, and a social theory of Appalachia that will not alleviate historical sociologists." Jrnl of Interdisciplinary History, ‘Through an in-depth study of a rural community in one of the poorest regions of the United States, this study provides extraordinary insight into how poverty is created and sustained over time. By examining the historical interaction of capitalist markets, the local state and cultural forces, the authors show why and how dominant market-driven approaches to development have failed. Using this historical understanding, they call upon policy makers for a new approach to poverty alleviation - one that takes a long term view, that supports cultural strategies, and that recognizes the importance of the local state. The lessons and insights from this book will be of interest and relevance to those concerned with poverty, inequality and development, not only in rural America, but across the globe.’John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies, 'Through an in-depth study of a rural community in one of the poorest regions of the United States, this study provides extraordinary insight into how poverty is created and sustained over time. By examining the historical interaction of capitalist markets, the local state and cultural forces, the authors show why and how dominant market-driven approaches to development have failed. Using this historical understanding, they call upon policy makers for a new approach to poverty alleviation - one that takes a long term view, that supports cultural strategies, and that recognizes the importance of the local state. The lessons and insights from this book will be of interest and relevance to those concerned with poverty, inequality and development, not only in rural America, but across the globe.'John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies, "Billings and Blee support their often fascinating and at times incredible report with a wealth of archival and contemporary data, grounded in a theoretically comprehensive and thoughtful analysis. Their book is a real eye opener for anyone who has ever wondered why Appalachia is, and has long been, so poor. It is also a rare case study of mostly white poverty with not an inner city in sight." Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University, ‘The Road to Poverty is a carefully researched and thoughtful analysis of social relations in Clay County, Kentucky over the past century. The result is a clear and convincing revelation of how ‘capitalist markets, state coercion and cultural strategies’ combined to set and keep central Appalachia on a road to persistent poverty. The book delivers a powerful message. Persistent poverty of a region is rooted in the history of its social (especially economic and political) institutions. Efforts to reduce poverty by focusing on individuals and families without attending to the social origins of persistent poverty are doomed to failure.’Gene F. Summers, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 'Inquiry into Appalachian poverty has too long been held captive to cultural stereotypes and untested assumptions. In their illuminating study, Billings and Blee dispell many of these falsehoods and document how Appalachia's tragic past continues to haunt its tortured present. Poverty is not a natural condition either of individuals or regions, and by situating the early history of Appalachian in the dynamics of global capitalism, Billings and Blee demonstrate how Appalachia was made poor. This is an important book for social scientists and historians and essential for all students of Appalachia and regional development more generally.' Larry Griffin, Vanderbilt University, '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, "...the Billings and Blee study is a careful and thoughtful one and an important addition to the literature." Journal of Economic History, "Road to Poverty is an extremely impressive book...It is a brilliant accomplishment that will have an impact far beyond Appalachian studies." Jrnl of Social History, 'Through an in-depth study of a rural community in one of the poorest regions of the United States, this study provides extraordinary insight into how poverty is created and sustained over time. By examining the historical interaction of capitalist markets, the local state and cultural forces, the authors show why and how dominant market-driven approaches to development have failed. Using this historical understanding, they call upon policy makers for a new approach to poverty alleviation - one that takes a long term view, that supports cultural strategies, and that recognizes the importance of the local state. The lessons and insights from this book will be of interest and relevance to those concerned with poverty, inequality and development, not only in rural America, but across the globe.' John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies, 'The Road to Poverty is a carefully researched and thoughtful analysis of social relations in Clay County, Kentucky over the past century. The result is a clear and convincing revelation of how 'capitalist markets, state coercion and cultural strategies' combined to set and keep central Appalachia on a road to persistent poverty. The book delivers a powerful message. Persistent poverty of a region is rooted in the history of its social (especially economic and political) institutions. Efforts to reduce poverty by focusing on individuals and families without attending to the social origins of persistent poverty are doomed to failure.' Gene F. Summers, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 'Billings and Blee support their often fascinating and at times incredible report with a wealth of archival and contemporary data, grounded in a theoretically comprehensive and thoughtful analysis. Their book is a real eye opener for anyone who has ever wondered why Appalachia is, and has long been, so poor.' Herbert Gans, Columbia University, "...an ambitious history of an Appalachian county in order to understand 'how places grow poor.' Skilled history from which interested readers and policy makers can learn much." Kirkus Reviews, "In this important and valuable study of the origins of Appalachian poverty, Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee use a variety of materials...to examine Clay County, Kentucky, over the course of the nineteenth century." American Historical Review, 'Billings and Blee support their often fascinating and at times incredible report with a wealth of archival and contemporary data, grounded in a theoretically comprehensive and thoughtful analysis. Their book is a real eye opener for anyone who has ever wondered why Appalachia is, and has long been, so poor.'Herbert Gans, Columbia University, ‘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, '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, ‘Inquiry into Appalachian poverty has too long been held captive to cultural stereotypes and untested assumptions. In their illuminating study, Billings and Blee dispell many of these falsehoods and document how Appalachia’s tragic past continues to haunt its tortured present. Poverty is not a natural condition either of individuals or regions, and by situating the early history of Appalachian in the dynamics of global capitalism, Billings and Blee demonstrate how Appalachia was made poor. This is an important book for social scientists and historians and essential for all students of Appalachia and regional development more generally.’Larry Griffin, Vanderbilt University
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Table Of Content
List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; Part I. Public Policy and Historical Sociology: 1. Introduction; Part II. Antebellum Capitalist Markets: 2. Fronier Kentucky in the capitalist world system; 3. Industry, commerce, and slaveholding; Part III. Antebellum State Coercion: 4. State making and the origins of elite conflict; Part IV. Cultural Strategies: 5. The patriarchal moral economy of agriculture; 6. Racial dynamics and the creation of poverty; Part V. Postbellum Capitalist Markets and the Local State: 7. From marginality to integration; 8. Feud violence; 9. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index.
Synopsis
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., Intended for social scientists, historians, and readers interested in social change and social poverty, this book examines the roots of entrenched poverty in Appalachia. It is both a social history of the creation of chronic poverty (and wealth) in Clay County, KY and an explication of how economic markets, cultural strategies, and the state interact to shape local society. By linking a longitudinal study of a single place to broader understandings of the historical development of the capitalist world system, this book contributes to policy discussions of the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty and reasons for the chronic failure of governmental programs to alleviate such poverty. In doing this study the authors have assembled probably the longest running set of longitudinal data currently available on an American rural population as well as the most extensive body of data available for a persistently poor community in the United States., Kathleen 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., Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities.
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