Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30 (Working Class in American History)
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Lawrence M. Lipin (Author)
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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 not only accepted the preservation of nature for recreation, they pressured state agencies to provide more outdoor opportunities. Fish and game commissioners responded with more intensive hatchery operations while wildlife advocates pushed for designated wilderness. In these and other ways, the labor movement's shifting relationship to nature reveals the complicated development of wildlife policy and its own battles with consumerism.
An innovative blend of environmental and labor history, Workers and the Wild examines the battles over the proper use of nature in the early twentieth century. 12 photographs; 6 line drawings CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Lawrence M. Lipin is a professor of history at Pacific University and author of Eleanor Baldwin and the Woman's Point of View: New Thought Radicalism in Portland's Progressive Era.
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- Contributor: Lawrence M. Lipin
- Imprint: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN13: 9780252073700
- Number of Pages: 248
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Release Date: 2007-03-19
- Series: Working Class in American History
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Lawrence M. Lipin is a professor of history at Pacific University and author of Eleanor Baldwin and the Woman's Point of View: New Thought Radicalism in Portland's Progressive Era.
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