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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Series Preface -- Editors' Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: transformation and development -- 2 Economic restructuring and employment change -- 3 Foreign investment and regional development -- 4 Urban change and the localities -- 5 Rural change and agriculture -- 6 Environment and environmentalism -- 7 Women's lives in transition: 'everything gets better but nothing is good' -- 8 Nationality, citizenship and identity

The images of poverty in Appalachia that John F. Kennedy used in his campaign for the presidency in 1960 shocked and disturbed many Americans. Five years later, President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. Congress demonstrated their commitment to that neglected and exploited region with the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission. In this insightful book, Michael Bradshaw explores the ARC's unique federal-state partnership and analyses in detail the contributions of the local development districts.But this work is more than an analysis of a government agency; it is, as Bradshaw notes, ""a bo