The Gritty Berkshires: A People's History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA

by Maynard Seider

Book Overview

As The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts' westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. For generations of working class families who have lived in the northern part of this county, their reality looks more like Rust Belt America.

Maynard Seider, an activist sociologist who has taught and researched in the area for more than three decades, places the history of the North Berkshire region in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188704339X
• ISBN13: 9781887043397
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: White River Press
• Length: 652 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"