Working on Earth

“Working on Earth is a significant contribution to the literature on class, labor, personal history, and environmentalism. Indeed, it is one of the first volumes of its kind to explain the ways in which class and the environment are powerfully, and sometimes tragically, entwined.” —Kathleen Newman, Associate Professor of English and cultural studies, Carnegie Mellon University, and blogger for the Center for Working Class Studies

"[Working on Earth] is useful for scholars and students who wish to encounter a wide variety of stories, history, and argument about working-class relationship to nature so often and easily overlooked or suppressed in the board sweep of environmental studies . . ."—Western American Literature

“Working on Earth is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental justice, political ecology, sustainability studies, and labor studies, and its narrative essays would be perfect to use, collectively or individually, in undergraduate and graduate courses.” —Utah Historical Quarterly