Empire of Timber - Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests

Informationen zum Autor Erik Loomis is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe (2015). He writes on labor, environmental, and political issues at the blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money (LGM). His series at LGM, 'This Day in Labor History' won a Cliopatria Award from the History News Network in 2011. Klappentext The battles to protect ancient forests and spotted owls in the Northwest splashed across the evening news in the 1980s and early 1990s. Empire of Timber re-examines this history to demonstrate that workers used their unions to fight for a healthy workplace environment and sustainable logging practices that would allow themselves and future generations the chance to both work and play in the forests. Examining labor organizations from the Industrial Workers of the World in the 1910s to unions in the 1980s, Empire of Timber shows that conventional narratives of workers opposing environmental protection are far too simplistic and often ignore the long histories of natural resource industry workers attempting to protect their health and their futures from the impact of industrial logging. Today, when workers fear that environmental restrictions threaten their jobs, learning the history of alliances between unions and environmentalists can build those conversations in the present. Zusammenfassung This book will appeal to readers interested in labor and environmental issues! rethinking conventional narratives that workers oppose environmental protections. It addresses the history of timber workers and nature from the Industrial Workers of the World in the 1910s through the battles over protecting the spotted owl in the 1990s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Industrial nature, working bodies; 2. The battle for the body; 3. Working class forests; 4. The total work environment; 5. Countercultural forest workers; 6. Organized labor and the ancient forest campaigns; Conclusion....

Product details

• Authors: Erik Loomis, Erik (University of Rhode Island) Loomis, Loomis Erik
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781107565036
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56503-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and His; Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; NATURE / Natural Resources, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Forestry, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Forestry & related industries, Environmental Management, History of the Americas, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states, Forestry industry