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Coal production is gradually leaving Appalachia鈥攈aving already extracted much of the region's natural wealth. Local people are figuring out how to build a new economy based on shared vision and community knowledge. If transition can happen here, it can change the debate everywhere.

Two-thirds of the country鈥檚 low-wage workers are women. That鈥檚 why they stand to benefit the most from greater equity in and control of the workplace.

For the movement to succeed, it must be led by the dispossessed鈥攖hose for whom the mainstream economy has never worked.