{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124299869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128340048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction:","authors":"","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122617738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epilogue:","authors":"","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"1985 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130480918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121463178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don’t Need Their Coal","authors":"Jason G. Strange","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.12","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter evaluates contemporary homesteading and rural subsistence in eastern Kentucky as a form of activism and resistance. It argues that homesteading alone is not a particularly effective means of changing larger socioeconomic structures, such as capitalism and plutocracy. However, homesteading, when pursued with skill, is capable of surprising achievements: it can be an effective means of reducing a household’s reliance upon the mainstream economy; shifting work away from wage labor; fostering frugality; bringing homesteaders into closer interaction with the natural world; and serving as a living laboratory for appropriate technologies. These are real accomplishments that explain the continued attraction of this particular form of activism.","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122525162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"You Can’t Eat Scenery","authors":"Jason G. Strange","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.7","url":null,"abstract":"The second of three chapters exploring the history of homesteading in the area around Berea, Kentucky, chapter 3 presents the story of rural subsistence from the late 1800s up to the economic boom generated by World War II. The chapter is framed in terms of the “parable of enclosure”--the idea that yeoman farmers would not voluntarily trade independent livelihood for capitalist wage labor--and argues that as industry and technology generated ever more advanced consumer goods (for example, refrigerators, radios, antibiotics), the peasant way of life became outmoded; once wage labor became available in the factories of the north, millions of Appalachians left the mountains. But, as the chapter documents, some chose to return to a homesteading life, forming an overlooked back-to-the-land movement.","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126958802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Buzzel about Kantuck","authors":"Jason G. Strange","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.6","url":null,"abstract":"The first of three chapters exploring the history of homesteading in the area around Berea, Kentucky, chapter 2 gives a lively overview of the initial wave of white colonization and Native American displacement in the late 1700s. Because the Wilderness Road and Boonesborough are both within the research area, the life of Daniel Boone is used to illustrate the ways in which--although the labor of colonization was performed by working-class and enslaved people--the project of colonization was controlled by elites, and the land engrossed into vast estates. Despite popular images of this first United States frontier as a space of smallholder independence, the society that was created was aristocratic and defined by exploitation, a theme carried forward through the rest of the book.","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"34 50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116215475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ain’t Nothin’ in Them Books","authors":"Jason G. Strange","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.9","url":null,"abstract":"The first of a three-chapter sequence exploring “cultural division in a capitalist society,” chapter 5 addresses the question--raised by the previous chapter on the back-to-the-land movement--of why some adults in eastern Kentucky are highly literate and book educated, while most are not. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork, the chapter argues that many people experience a kind of “make-believe,” lecture-based schooling that renders them disinterested in reading and book-based learning. Some are raised in literate households, which may offset the limitations of the classroom; most, however, grow up in households with limited literacy and have little opportunity to access this crucial set of educational resources. The chapter recognizes the worth of practical skills and knowledge, while also discussing the real impacts of pedagogical dispossession.","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130689377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I Haven’t Felt My Hands in Years","authors":"Jason G. Strange","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvzgb7fr.10","url":null,"abstract":"The previous chapter focused on the role of literacy and schooling in creating “cultural division in a capitalist society”; this chapter focuses upon the role of labor and jobs. Beginning with an ethnographic description of work in a factory in eastern Kentucky, the chapter explores lower-tier jobs as a source of damage and limitation for workers, and poses the question of whether such jobs are inevitable in an industrial society. In answering that question, the chapter offers a primer on the political economy of capitalism and exploitation; contrasts low-quality jobs with professional, high-quality jobs; and discusses real-world alternatives to capitalism. The conclusion is that damaging jobs are mostly a side-effect of the ownership architecture of capitalism; they are not an unavoidable feature of industrial society.","PeriodicalId":396545,"journal":{"name":"Shelter from the Machine","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124173360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}