Word: handwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addresses itself specifically to West Virginia women. One section, for example, explores opportunities for women in coal mining. Another part describes emerging small industries run by women, such as quilting cooperatives; only recently have these women begun to market and sell the region's traditional crafts and handwork. The book's food and nutrition section contains information on gardening and canning, familiar chores for most Appalachian women...
Women have always worked. Traditionally, countless women labored in the home to meet family clothing needs. While the advent of the machine altered these domestic origins, handwork remains essential to the manufacturing process...
...patrols checking for leaks. The sugar industry recorded an average annual gain of 4.2%, largely because it has been making greater use of power scoops and shovels to move sugar around in mills. The shoe industry had the lowest gain, .3% a year, because it still relies mostly on handwork...
WEDNESDAY night's riot in the Square was no incidental marring of an afternoon of peaceful protest. Nor was it the handwork of an isolated clique of anarchists bent on wreaking havoc for reasons of sheer perversity. The number of people that became actively involved and the depth of the anger, fear, and doubt that it touched off in most of us demand that we find less simplistic explanations...