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Book Review
| Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States. By Chad Montrie. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 177 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3197-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5878-3.)
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| In Making a Living, Chad Montrie, drawing on Karl Marx, argues that industrial capitalism resulted not only in alienated labor, but in estrangement from nature. In six case studies, ranging from New England to California and from the 1830s to the 1960s, he explores how workers understood and resisted their dual alienation. |
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