Part I: Case Studies of Crisis and Struggle 1. "It Has to Come from the People": Responding to Plant Closings in Ivanhoe, Virginia -- Maxine Waller, Helen M. Lewis, Clare McBrien, and Carroll Wessings 2. People Power: Working for the Future in the East Kentucky Coalfields -- Kristin Layng Szakos 3. Voices from the Coalfields: How Miners' Families Understand the Crisis of Coal -- Mike Yarrow 4. "Women Miners Can Dig It Too!" -- Betty Jean Hall 5. Organizing Women for Local Economic Development -- Chris Weiss 6. Organizing Rural Farmers: Central Kentucky in Global Context -- Hal Hamilton 7.
From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras: A Case Study of Capital Flight and Its impact on Workers -- John Gaventa 8. A Betrayal of Trust: The Impact of Economic Development Policy Upon Working Citizens -- John Bookser-Feister and Leah Wise 9. Alternative Worker Organizing in South Carolina -- Charles Taylor 10. Voting Rights and Community Empowerment: Political Struggle in the Georgia Black Belt -- Alex Willingham 11. Race, Development, and the Character of Black Political Life in Bogalusa, Louisiana -- Rickey Hill 12. Economic Slavery or Hazardous Wastes: Robenson County's Economic Menu-- Richard Regan and Mac Legerton 13. The Mayhew Tree: An Informal Case Study in Homegrown Economic Development -- Ralph Hils Part II: Visions for the Future 14. Saturn: Tomorrow's Jobs, Yesterday's Wages and Myths -- Carter Garber 15.
Environmentalism, Economic Blackmail, and Civil Rights: Competing Agendas Within the Black Community -- Robert D. Bullard 16. New Workforce; New Organizing: The Experience of Women Office Workers and 9 to 5 -- Cindia Cameron 17. The Changing International Division of Labor: Links with Southern Africa -- Ann Seidmun 18. Economics Education, a Cultural and Political Project -- Wendy Luttrell 19. Naming the Problem: Some Perspectives from Creole Culture -- Deborah Clifton Hils 20. Towards a Human Needs Economy -- Richard A. Couto 21.
National Economic Renewal Programs and Their Implications for Economic Development in Appalachia and the South -- Steve Fisher 22. Toward a New Debate: Development, Democracy, and Dignity -- the editors.