| Children of Crisis, Volume II: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers Contributor(s): Coles, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316151769 ISBN-13: 9780316151764 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press OUR PRICE: $29.69 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1973 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 331.5 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.41" W x 8.24" (1.65 lbs) 653 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since the late 1950's, Robert Coles has been studying, living with, and, above all, listening to the American poor. The result is one of the most vigorous and searching social studies ever undertaken by one man in the United States. Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers is the second volume in Dr. Coles's award-winning series, Children of Crisis. In it, he listens to three groups: the migrant workers who travel the eastern coast of this country, picking crops day after day; the sharecroppers and tenant farmers who live on isolated southern plantations, just as their ancestors did as slaves; and the mountaineers of Appalachia, whose only choice lies between coal mining and starvation. |