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Structural And Interpersonal Antecedents Of Heavy Drinking Among High School Students: A Longitudinal Analysis, Katherine Novak, Lizabeth Crawford
Structural And Interpersonal Antecedents Of Heavy Drinking Among High School Students: A Longitudinal Analysis, Katherine Novak, Lizabeth Crawford
Katherine B. Novak
Paper presented at then Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. April, 1999. Minneapolis, MN.
A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving The Socioeconomic Fabric Of Women's Lives, Ann M. Oberhauser, Anne-Marie Turnage
A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving The Socioeconomic Fabric Of Women's Lives, Ann M. Oberhauser, Anne-Marie Turnage
Ann Oberhauser
Throughout the coalfields of central Appalachia, working-class people are engaging in alternative means of economic survival. For many, the region's endemic poverty is now worsening as tremendous job losses in coal mining diminish the historic source of employment for working -class men. In order to secure the necessities of life for themselves and their families, working-class women are not only entering the paid labor force but also turning to unregulated forms of income generation that lie outside the formal, wage-earning economy.