Shelter from the Machine
Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 23 March 2020
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252043031
- Binding Hardback
- See also 9780252084898
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 235x156x28 mm
- Weight 653 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 black & white photographs 0
Categories
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks
Social issues, social work
Further hobby books
History of America
Organizational sociology
Cultural anthropology
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks (charity campaign)
Social issues, social work (charity campaign)
Further hobby books (charity campaign)
History of America (charity campaign)
Organizational sociology (charity campaign)
Cultural anthropology (charity campaign)
Long description:
”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.
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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.
