CAPITALIST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN

"Capitalist Economic Development in Appalachian Kentucky " utilizes the methodology of historical materialism to study the generation and reproduction of poverty in the Appalachian region. Chapter 1 reviews the explanations of poverty that have been suggested by missionaries and educators, liberal and conservative "culture of poverty " theorists, economists, and union and grass-roots organizers. A brief critique of these explanations is given in terms of their functions in either legitimizing or challenging the process of capitalist economic development. Chapter 2 describes the historical process of "primitive accumu-lation", the establishment and legitimization of outside capitalist control over the region, and early union struggles against this control. Chapter 3 describes the role that the United Mine Workers of America has in the process of development in Appalachia. Beginning with the unionization drives in the mid-1930's, the form of development was dominated by conflicts and agreements that were made by the UMW of A and the coal/energy industry. In Chapter 4 the analytical tools of Marxian Economic Analysis and Economic Dualism are synthesized to describe the structure of the Appalachian political economy. Wage determination, maintenance of surplus labor, capital accumulation, income and wealth distribution, and subsist-ence in the political economy are described. Chapter 5 describes the social and political "superstructure " that has supported the economic structure in the region. Chapter 6 briefly outlines the dialectics of future development