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Talk about Trouble : A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression, 'Things ain't now like they used to be nohow,' a Virginia native told a WPA worker in the 1930s. Indeed, a central theme unifying the hundreds of life histories recorded by Virginia Writers' Project fieldworkers between 1938 and 1941 is that the narrators, Talk about Trouble : A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression
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  • Talk about Trouble : A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression
  • Written by author Nancy J. Martin-Perdue, Charles L. Perdue, Jr
  • Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1996/10/31
  • 'Things ain't now like they used to be nohow,' a Virginia native told a WPA worker in the 1930s. Indeed, a central theme unifying the hundreds of life histories recorded by Virginia Writers' Project fieldworkers between 1938 and 1941 is that the narrators
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Preface
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Abbreviations
Introduction 1
Editorial Commentary and Method 12
Pt. I Narrating Experience: Virginia and Virginians in the Decade of the Great Depression 17
1 Narrating Old Ways and Past Times: Of "Infairs" and "Callithumps" 23
2 Narrating Women's Experience: "Living the Life of a Woman" 60
3 Narrating Men's Experience: "We Meet With So Many Changes" 106
4 Narrating the African American Experience: "Democracy Paid For" 154
Pt. II Making a Living: From Farm to Factory 205
5 Making a Living from the Land: Paid in "Chips and Whetstones" 210
6 Making a Living on the Water: "Takes a Man with a Good Back An' Strong Arms" 251
7 Making a Living in the Trades and Business: "A High Standard of Output" 273
8 Making a Living in Iron, Steel, and Coal: "Of Every Artificer in Brass and Iron" 302
9 Making a Living in Factory and Mill: "Hurrying to Keep Time With Machines" 336
Epilogue: Virginia on the Eve of World War II 360
App. A Selected Listing of Federal Relief Agencies and Programs 381
App. B Supplemental Data on Informants and Selected VWP Interviewers 383
App. C RA/FSA Photographs Taken in Virginia 427
Notes 429
Bibliography 465
Index 475


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