1959 Highlander Way · New Market,
TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424
e-mail: hrec@highlandercenter.org
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| Item #WP-1 - WE'RE TIRED OF BEING GUINEA PIGS: A HANDBOOK FOR CITIZENS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IN APPALACHIA By Juliet Merrifield In using Appalachia's resources for energy and industrial development, many of the resources have been damaged. As importantly, these industries have damaged the health of workers and their families living in Appalachian communities. This handbook outlines some of the main problems in each area, and provides tools for citizens to investigate further the particular problems in their community. 1980 (83 pages) $8.50 |
| Item #WP-2 - NO PLACE TO RUN: LOCAL REALITIES AND GLOBAL ISSUE OF THE BHOPAL DISASTER By Ann Agarwal/Juliet Merrifield/Rajesh Tandon This report is a joint product of three organizations: Highlander, Participatory Research in Asia and Center for Science and Environment. It describes the events at Bhopal, exposes the record of Union Carbide worldwide and analyzes issues that emerge from this disaster. It is aimed at activist workers and community groups, organizers and popular educators. 1985 (40 pages) $6.50 |
| Item #WP-3 - WATER: YOU HAVE TO DRINK IT WITH A FORK By Selfridge/Gaventa/Merrifield/Currie A report from a workshop held at the Highlander Research and Education Center on Water Issues in Appalachia. 1985 (53 pages) $7.50 |
| Item #WP-4 - PICKING UP THE PIECES By Lewis/Selfridge/Merrifield/Thrasher/Perry/ Honeycutt This book was developed from a workshop held at the Highlander Center. Thirty women, black, white and Native American, ranging in age from 18 to 60, came from ten communities throughout the South to discuss their problems and share what they are doing about them. The women who attended the workshop are community leaders and their stories show how they became leaders, the process of developing consciousness, self-confidence, a measure of independence and the determination to work in their communities for better times for all. 1986 (35 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-5 - CLAIMING OUR ECONOMIC HISTORY, JELLICO, TENNESSEE By Mountain Women's Exchange This is a collection of 18 stories compiled from interviews focused upon the work experiences of Jellico residents. Information on changing work patterns, land ownership, migrations, booms and busts. All help to provide a survival strategy for hard times. 1987 (30 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-6 - DEINDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE TENNESSEE ECONOMY By John Gaventa This 18-page report completed by John Gaventa and Peter Wiley (University of Tennessee Department of Political Science) provides concise evidence regarding the changing economy of Tennessee. In a 5-year period of 1981-88, over 500,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in this state— without any major alarm being raised by state planners. Prepared as part of a larger Highlander project on analyzing the changing economy of the rural South, the report presents startling facts about joblessness and the absence of planning. 1988 (18 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-7 - CLAIMING WHAT IS OURS, AN ECONOMICS EXPERIENCE WORKBOOK By Wendy Luttrell A handbook designed for educational use in a variety of settings, with exercises. 1988 (155 pages) $15.00 |
| Item #WP-8 - THE JELLICO HANDBOOK: A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO COMMUNITY- BASED LEARNING By Helen Lewis, John Gaventa An in-depth description and an evaluation of participatory approach to learning about the economy in one setting. 1988 (61 pages) $10.00 |
| Item #WP-9 - DEVELOPING FEASIBILITY STUDIES FOR COMMUNITY-BASED BUSINESS VENTURES By Sue Ella Kobak, Nina McCormack A companion volume to WP8 above, focusing on teaching business planning skills in the community. 1988 (57 pages) $10.00 |
| Item #WP-10 - FROM THE MOUNTAIN TO THE MAQUILADORAS By John Gaventa This is a study of the causes and impact of worker dislocation using an in-depth case study, along with more general information on the changing regional and Tennessee economy. The research explores the reasons for layoff at the Allied-Signal Seatbelt Co. in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the consequent impact on the dislocated workers. 1988 (69 pages) $10.00 |
| Item #WP-11 - CULTURE, THE ROOTS OF COMMUNITY SPIRIT AND POWER By Jane Sapp Sapp presents in this booklet a concise overview of Highlander's cultural work. Close-up stories on several communities along with photographs, make this pamphlet enjoyable and powerful reading. 1989 (20 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-12 - PUTTING SCIENTISTS IN THEIR PLACE: PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH By Juliet Merrifield This publication reviews some of the issues of control over the production and use of scientific knowledge which have emerged from struggles over the past decade in the southeastern United States. Alternative approaches are identified which involve systematizing and validating people's own knowledge to attempt to develop a new science which is responsive to people's needs and accountable to their oversight. 1989 (32 pages) $7.00 |
| Item #WP-13 - PARTICIPATORY EDUCATION AND GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT: CURRENT EXPERIENCES IN APPALACHIA, U.S.A. By Helen Lewis and John Gaventa The overall objective of the Participatory Development project is to strengthen opportunities and means by which poor populations can achieve self-directed, self-reliant development. In recent years, many poor people have successfully organized innovative institutional and policy changes to overcome poverty. 1990 (13 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-14 - POLLUTION INDUSTRIES IN THE SOUTH AND APPALACHIA: ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, AND POLITICS By Lachelle Norris-Hall During the last decade, citizens from around the country have become increasingly aware, vocal, and active over the issue of toxic and hazardous materials in their communities. This report introduces three communities that have recognized an environmental threat, dealt with the economic inconsistencies involved, and fought to escape the strangle-hold of industrial control over their environmental conditions. 1990 (14 pages) $5.00 |
| Item #WP-15 - UPSTREAM BATTLE: THE PIGEON RIVER By Americans for a Clean Environment This report documents a long history of pollution, its local effects— human, environmental, and economic—and ACE's experiences in working for a clean river. It deals with the impacts and looks for alternatives to the polluting process at the Champion International Paper Company so the jobs at the mill need not be lost. 1990 (77 pages) $13.50 |
| Item #WP-16 - COMING UP THE ROUGH SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN: COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP By Highlander Center Description and evaluation of a workshop for grassroots community groups working on alternative economic development projects. Participants discuss organization building, fund-raising strategies, using culture in their work, how their efforts fit into the big economic picture, and strategies for moving ahead. 1991 (36 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-17 - ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS SHARE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES: DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION OF STP SCHOOLS AT THE HIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER By Israel/Chesler/Baker/Wellin/Langer/Forderer A series of 10 monthly, residential weekend-long workshops attended by local grassroots and national environmental organizers. 1991 (55 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-18 - PARTICIPATORY EDUCATION AND GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF RURAL APPALACHIA By Helen Lewis and John Gaventa This volume looks at Highlander's economic education efforts in Appalachia and its role in promoting community development. The booklet also describes various methods of participatory education to encourage involvement at the grassroots level. International Institute for Environment and Development. Gatekeeper Series Number 25, Periodical, 1991 (13 pages) $5.00 |
| Item #WP-19 - THROW-AWAY WORKERS: THE RISE IN PART-TIME, TEMPORARY, AND CONTRACT JOBS By Lachelle Norris There is a growing trend in the U.S. towards replacement of permanent workers with "contingent" workers— part-time, temporary and contract jobs. A Highlander Economy School in July, 1991, brought groups together who are working in the South to address abuses of contingent workers. This paper which grew out of that workshop gives an overview, reports on some groups and their strategies, and contains an annotated bibliography covering a wide range of information sources on the contingent workforce. 1992 (43 pages) $8.50 |
| Item #WP-20 - A FOOT IN THE DOOR: RURAL COMMUNITIES INVOLVED IN EDUCATIONAL CHANGE Prepared by Connie White and Juliet Merrifield This report looks at the crisis in education in the United States. The participants identify the most pressing problems they have experienced with the education system in their communities. They express their hopes and dreams for what education ought to be, and describe the successes and barriers which they have faced as community leaders and activists in attempting to bring about change. University of Tennessee, November 1990 (58 pages) $11.00 |
| Item #WP-21 - MY LIFE AND GOOD TIMES IN THE MOUNTAINS, OR LIFE AND LEARNING IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA By Helen Lewis This paper was originally an address given by Helen Lewis on the occasion of her receiving the Award for Educational Service to Appalachia from Carson-Newman College. It chronicles her life as a teacher and activist in Appalachia. Here for the first time in writing, Helen remembers the key events of her long involvement in the struggles of mountain people for social and economic justice. At the beginning of the paper, Helen writes, "I also decided it might be interesting to go back and look at some of the things I have written and reflect on my life and work in the region and think about how the region has changed, how what I write has changed, and how I have also changed in that process." Carson-Newman Studies/ Highlander Center, 1995 (31 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-22 - POPULAR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING By Larry Wilson This paper looks at the model of popular education and community organizing of the Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens, a community based environmental group located in Bell County, Kentucky. It compares actual strategies and events with writings of Myles Horton. 1995 (18 pages) $6.00 |
| Item #WP-23 - NURTURING ONE'S DREAMS: A REVIEW OF PAULO FREIRE'S "PEDAGOGY OF HOPE" By Herbert Kohl This thoughtful analysis of Paulo Freire's works is helpful in understanding the educational philosophy of the prominent Brazilian educator. Originally published in Rethinking Schools, it is a clear guide to Freire's life and work. It will be useful as an introduction to Freire for those unfamiliar with his writings, but also as a thoughtprovoking essay for those who have already discovered his many books. 1995 (17 pages) $4.50 |
