Children of Crisis - Volume 2

Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers (Children of Crisis, Vol 2)

Paperback, 653 pages

English language

Published March 30, 1973 by Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-316-15176-4
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This study of the rural poor in the American South is the second volume of Dr. Robert Coles' award-winning Children of Crisis, a series of books which, when complete, will constitute one of the most vigorous and thoroughly documented studies ever made of poor people in America.

Ever since the late 1950's, Dr. Coles has been studying, traveling, interviewing, and, above all, listening to the American poor and those who live by their side, or affect their destiny. Out of his by now vast experience he conveys, with both judgment and compassion, the unheard voices of the American population. Migrants, Shareсroppers, Mountaineers concerns itself with three groups: first, the migrant workers who travel up and down the eastern coast of this country from Florida to Maine through the seasons, picking crops day after day on farm after farm, with no place to call home and without any of the ordinary …

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Subjects

  • Children's Studies
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Psychology
  • Migrant labor
  • Poor
  • Sharecropping
  • Southern States
  • United States
  • Sociology

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