Erik Loomis: Empire of Timber | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781107565036 | Empire of Timber | Erik Loomis | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den 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.

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107565036
ISBN-10:	1107565030
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Loomis, Erik
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Erik Loomis
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.05.2017
Gewicht:	0,434 kg