Shelter from the machine : homesteaders in the age of capitalism /

Shelter from the machine : homesteaders in the age of capitalism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Strange, Jason G., author.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Description:	xix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Self-reliant living -- Appalachian Region, Southern. Self-reliant living -- Kentucky. Frontier and pioneer life -- Appalachian Region, Southern. Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky. Subsistence economy -- Appalachian Region, Southern. Subsistence economy -- Kentucky. Sociology, Rural -- Appalachian Region, Southern. Sociology, Rural -- Kentucky. Frontier and pioneer life. Rural conditions. Self-reliant living. Social conditions. Sociology, Rural. Subsistence economy. Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Kentucky -- Social conditions -- 21st century. United States -- Rural conditions. Kentucky. Southern Appalachian Region. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12775986

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ISBN:	9780252043031 0252043030 9780252084898 0252084896 9780252051890
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index.
Summary:	"'You're either buried with your crystals or your shotgun.' That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today. Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society -- only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping"--
Other form:	Online version: Strange, Jason G. Shelter from the machine. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]. 9780252051890

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Heaven in a flower
You can see other people's poop
A buzzel about Kantuck
You can't eat scenery
Never seen so much hair in your life
Ain't nothin' in them books
I haven't felt my hands in years
Hard living
Don't need their coal
Epilogue: Without a chief.