Glass Towns Carol R. Glass and language policy in the

and language policy in the region while adding a chapter on critical sociolinguistics-a new framework for critiquing the scholarly practices of sociolinguistics

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economic growth has depended heavily on people converting more energy from their natural environments and concentrating the resulting energy flows towards the application of specific tasks

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Glass Towns Carol R. Glass and language policy in theOne of the central questions facing scholars of Appalachia concerns how a region so rich in natural resources could end up a symbol of poverty. Typical culprits include absentee landowners, reactionary coal operators, stubborn mountaineers, and greedy politicians. In a deft combination of labor and business history, Glass Towns complicates these answers by examining the glass industry's potential to improve West Virginia's political economy by