| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890–1930s. By Ken Fones-Wolf. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xxx, 236 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03131-1. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07371-7.)
In Glass Towns, Ken Fones-Wolf successfully pursues two projects. One describes the forces leading to the restructuring of the glass industry between 1890 and the 1920s, while the other examines the potential of that restructuring to diversify West Virginia's political economy by establishing a base of value- added manufacturing to complement the state's abundant natural resources.	1
Fones-Wolf begins by tracing the decline of the artisan status of preindustrial craftsmen as glass manufacturing became thoroughly industrialized during the nineteenth century. That process was not predetermined or a result of a single, dramatic shift. Rather, it involved a complex range of strategies in investment, corporate reorganizations, new technologies, and new spatial divisions of labors, and, despite some similarities, it occurred in unique ways in each branch of the industry. The author pays particular attention to the impact of that restructuring on workers and their communities.	. . .

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