Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States

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Index Agricultural Labor Relations Board, in California, 127 Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), 118, 122. See also United Farm Workers Akron, Ohio, 72, 86–88 Albion River, 102 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 102 American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL– CIO), 112, 131 Appalachia, 8, 71–74, 77, 87–90, 93, 130. See also West Virginia Audubon Society, 106 Bagley, Sarah, 13–14, 25 Baldwin-Felts agents, 84–85, 87 Beresford, Vic, 98. See also Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) Black codes, 44 Black Lake, UAW labor education center at, 93, 111–12 Blizzards, 57–58 Boston, 20, 23 Bowers, Roberta, 109. See also Down River Anti-Pollution League Bracero program, 117–18 Brower, David, 112 California, 8, 11–12, 113–25 California Department of Agriculture, 125 California Department of Public Health, 119–20 California Labor Relations Act, 127 Candle making, 15–16 Carding, 17, 22, 73 Carson, Rachel, 120 Cather, Willa, 56, 70 Change to Win coalition, 131 Chávez, César, 12, 114, 122–24, 126 Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, 74–75 Chickens. See Poultry: chickens Chrysler Corporation, 102 Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste, 113 Clean Air Act, 112 Clinton River, 110 Coal camps: in West Virginia, 72, 76–85 Coal mining, 5, 10–11, 71–77, 83–84, 88; surface, 4, 89–90 Cold War, 99, 102 Company stores: in coal camps, 80–82 Company towns: in West Virginia. See Coal camps: in West Virginia Concord River, 20 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 103, 105 Conservation Foundation, 100 174 Index Cooking, 15, 60, 79 Cotton, cultivation of, 10, 35–42, 45–47, 49. See also Sharecropping; Slavery Cotton Kingdom, 36, 50 Cows: milking, 15, 17, 34, 40, 79, 94; and making butter and cheese, 15, 17, 73 Cumberland Plateau, 73 Delano, grape strike in, 114, 123 Democratic Party, 91, 103, 118 Department of Conservation, Michigan, 96–97, 99, 104 Detroit, Mich., 3, 11, 72, 88, 90–92, 97, 102, 105, 107–11 Detroit River, 102, 109–10 Dillard, Jessie, 111. See also United Active Women Division of labor, gendered, 15, 62–63, 66–67, 73, 78–79 Dollmaker, The. See Simpson, Harriet Arnow Domestic economy, 10, 54, 65–67. See also Housekeeping: scientific Donahue, Tom, 112 Down River Anti-Pollution League (DAPL), 109–11 Drought, 57 Dyeing cloth: at home, 15, 17, 73; in mills, 23 Earth Day, 110–11, 126 Eggs. See Poultry Engels, Friedrich, 6, 129 Environmental Action, 126 Environmental Defense Fund, 126–27 Environmentalists for Full Employment, 112 Evans, Brock, 126 Fires: on plains, 57–58 Fishing, 2–3, 8, 88, 95; and women, 2, 18, 29, 56; and African Americans, 10, 35– 36, 38–43, 49–53; and autoworkers, 11, 96–101 passim; and coal miners and families, 73, 77, 79–82 Flax, 15–17 Fleas, 57, 59 Fleece. See Wool Flint, Mich., 97 Flint River, 101 Ford, Henry, 1–2, 95–96 Franklin Delano Roosevelt–CIO Labor Education Center, 92, 105–6, 111 Fraser, Winnie, 111. See also United Active Women Freedmen’s Bureau, 35, 44, 47, 49 Free labor. See Wage labor Friends of the Earth, 112 Gardening, 2; and African Americans, 10, 35–36, 38–43, 45, 48, 50–53, 78; and Appalachian coal miners and families, 10–11, 73–74, 77–82, 85; and New England women, 15, 18–19, 21; and plains women, 60–62, 64–65, 68; and autoworkers, 103 Gathering, 15, 19, 40–41; berries, 15, 29, 31, 56, 68, 73; herbs, nuts, and roots, 18, 39, 73; flowers, 19, 29, 56, 65 Geese. See Poultry: geese General Motors Corporation, 102 Genesee Sportsmen’s Club, 98; and Genesee Sportsman, 99 Gibbs, Lois, 113 Grasshoppers, 57–58 Great Society, 108 Hamtramck, auto assembly plant in, 97 Highland Park, auto assembly plant in, 96–97 Hogs. See Pigs Housekeeping, 15, 18; scientific, 54, 66, 70. See also Domestic economy Huerta, Dolores, 124 Hunting, 2–3, 8, 88, 95; and women, 2, 18, 99; and African Americans, 10, 35– 36, 38–43, 49–53; and autoworkers, 11, 96–101, 103; and coal miners and families , 73, 77–86 passim Index 175 Illinois, 55, 56, 60 Indiana, 55, 60, 62, 102 International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 107, 115, 125–27, 131 Izaak Walton League (Mich.), 98–99 Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 108 Kalamazoo River, 101–2 Kanawha River, 74–75 Kansas, 8, 10, 13, 53–70 passim, 99, 130 Kennedy, John F., 118 Kent League...