Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30
(Part of the The Working Class in American History Series)
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Focusing on Oregon in the 1910s and 1920s, Lawrence M. Lipin traces the shift in labor's thinking about the use of natural resources. As he shows, workers began with the so-called producerist idea that resources and land, whether rural or urban, should be put to productive use rather than set aside as "elitist" nature preserves. But working class views changed as the automobile gave people access to national parks, forests, and beaches. Workers...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252073703
ISBN13:9780252073700
Release Date:March 2007
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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