Workers And Dissent In The Redwood Empire
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Workers And Dissent In The Redwood Empire
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Author : Daniel A. Cornford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Workers And Dissent In The Redwood Empire written by Daniel A. Cornford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Business & Economics categories.
This excellent community history of the lumber region around Eureka, California, deserves a wide readership. Cornford (San Francisco State) takes on a big question: How did the radical "republican" tradition of the American Revolution lead to the conservative corporate hierarchy of the 20th century? His case study looks at how timber and sawmill workers' attitudes toward work and politics changed from the Civil War to World War I. The author sees 19th-century America's stress on equality as double-edged: critical of the corporate enterprise, yet accommodating to paternalistic capitalism. Nineteen hundred divides US history between republic and empire; in Eureka, workers briefly developed a sense of class struggle before the mill owners permanently defeated them. Highly recommended. James W. Oberly, Univ. Of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Working People Of California
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Author : Daniel Cornford
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Working People Of California written by Daniel Cornford and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with History categories.
From the California Indians who labored in the Spanish missions to the immigrant workers on Silicon Valley's high-tech assembly lines, California's work force has had a complex and turbulent past, marked by some of the sharpest and most significant battles fought by America's working people. This anthology presents the work of scholars who are forging a new brand of social history—one that reflects the diversity of California's labor force by paying close attention to the multicultural and gendered aspects of the past. Readers will discover a refreshing chronological breadth to this volume, as well as a balanced examination of both rural and urban communities. Daniel Cornford's excellent general introduction provides essential historical background while his brief introductions to each chapter situate the essays in their larger contexts. A list of further readings appears at the end of each chapter. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Yanks In The Redwoods
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Author : Frank H. Baumgardner
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2010
Yanks In The Redwoods written by Frank H. Baumgardner and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Yanks in the Redwoodstells the story of the exploration and settlement of the Northwest, focusing on a one-hundred-mile region of the Mendocino Coast, 70 miles north of San Francisco. Covering the period of 1800–1900, the book presents several never-before-published accounts by participants. The founders of the Humboldt Bay Community are seen through the eyes of George Gibbs, Customs Collector, Astoria, OR. A unique look at the Oregon Trail, derived from the notes jotted down by Jesse Applegate and Stanley and Clarissa Taylor, debunks the Hollywood image of the hostile Indian. Sparely-written diary entries convey the pungent flavors and kernels of wisdom squeezed out of a life of hard work in a family timber business and the almost speechless surprise when corporations quickly moved in and muscled the founders out of their own enterprises. The book contains personal accounts by John Work, leader of the Hudson Bay Co. Expedition to the North Coast, and by Jerome and Emily Ford, founders of the Mendocino Lumber Co., and the fraud investigation of Thomas J. Henley. It tells of the founding of Mendocino and Ft. Bragg, the experiences of the Chinese community, the role of "Dog Hole" schooners, and the opium trade. The book concludes with excerpts from the diary of Etta Stephens Pullen, a pioneer who relocated from Maine to Little River, California, and the transcript of an interview with Lucy Young, a Wailaki-Lassik Indian telling the grim story of genocide that was going on coincidental with events in Etta Pullen's diary. Never before has this coastal segment of Northern California been studied in a comprehensive historical book. All of the earliest participant groups, Indians, Yankees and immigrants from the Midwestern and Southern states, northern European immigrants and Chinese, are presented. Wherever possible excerpts from primary sources, written by the people who made this history, are directly quoted. This work will become an example for other Northwest coastal regions to tell their own stories for later generations to enjoy.
Beasts Of The Field
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Author : Richard Steven Street
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2004
Beasts Of The Field written by Richard Steven Street and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.
We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here
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Author : William J. Bauer (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009
We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here written by William J. Bauer (Jr.) and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Social Science categories.
The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reser
Selected References Concerning The Usda Forest Service
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Selected References Concerning The Usda Forest Service written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Forest policy categories.
The Encyclopedia Of Strikes In American History
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Author : Aaron Brenner
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date : 2009
The Encyclopedia Of Strikes In American History written by Aaron Brenner and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
A collection of historical research on strikes in America comprised of two types of essays, those focused on an industry or economic sector and those focused on a theme. This approach provides a detailed perspective as well broad historical and social coverage of the topic.
The Seven States Of California
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Author : Philip L. Fradkin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1997-05-12
The Seven States Of California written by Philip L. Fradkin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-12 with History categories.
"Philip Fradkin's work is full of foresight, good sense, and an understanding of the ties between social and environmental dilemmas. Taking Fradkin's writing seriously is an important step in figuring out the American West today."—Patricia Nelson Limerick
When Money Grew On Trees
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Author : Greg Gordon
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-04-02
When Money Grew On Trees written by Greg Gordon and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron. Although he began his career as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates, successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman. Against the backdrop of western expansion and nation-building, his life dramatically demonstrates how individuals—more than the impersonal forces of political economy—shaped capitalism in this country, and in doing so, transformed the forests of the West from functioning natural ecosystems into industrial landscapes. In revealing Hammond’s instrumental role in converting the nation’s public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government and the modern corporation. Combining environmental, labor, and business history with biography, When Money Grew on Trees challenges the conventional view that the development and exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the East Coast. The West, Gordon suggests, was perfectly capable of exploiting itself, and in his book we see how Hammond and other regional entrepreneurs dammed rivers, logged forests, and leveled mountains in just a few decades. Hammond and his like also built cities, towns, and a vast transportation network of steamships and railroads to export natural resources and import manufactured goods. In short, they established much of the modern American state and economy.
Reigniting The Labor Movement
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Author : Gerald Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-10-04
Reigniting The Labor Movement written by Gerald Friedman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Labor's democratic dilemmas -- Has the forward march of labor halted? -- Labor's liberty is a social product -- How unions grew and why they stopped -- Explaining the inexplicable : accounting for the madness of moments -- When workers win : dilemmas of success -- The limits of social democracy : did success kill the labor movement? -- Reigniting the labor movement : restoring means to ends.