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