| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Colleen O'Neill. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xviii, 235 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1395-1.)
In this interesting study, Colleen O'Neill looks at various topics that demonstrate how Navajo workers have adjusted from their traditional pastoral-agricultural life to one in a modern industrial economy. She repeatedly suggests that Navajos played a significant role in making the transition, and, in particular, that they did not abandon the important role that the Navajo household played or give up their cultural values and responsibilities. In short, the book focuses on how Navajos negotiated between their past and the capitalist economy.	1
The topic of pre-1940 Navajo coal mining offers an especially good example of the author's approach. Mining operations started in the 1920s with mostly small-scale mines that had seven to nine men working on easily accessible outcroppings. Coal mining was most active during the winter and usually closed down when farming started in the spring. Miners retained sufficient coal to meet family needs and sold any surplus to outsiders, and they also carried on traditional pastoral and farming activities.	. . .

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