Pineros: Latino Labour and the Changing Face of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest, Brinda Sarathy
Автор: William Dietrich Название: The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest ISBN: 0295990627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295990620 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 17150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
Before Forks, a small town on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed “Logging Capital of the World” and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way to tourism, but even with its new fame, Forks is still a home to loggers and others who make their living from the surrounding forests. The new edition recounts how forest policy and practices have changed since the early 1990s and also tells us what has happened in Forks and where the actors who were so important to the timber wars are now.
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Although the exploitation of Latino workers in many industries iswell known, pineros – Latino forest workers –toil largely in obscurity. Brinda Sarathy investigates how the USfederal government came to be one of the country’s largestemployers of Latino labour, and documents pinero wages and workingconditions in comparison to those of white forest labourers. Pineroexploitation, Sarathy argues, is the product of an ongoing history ofinstitutionalized racism in the West. Overcoming this legacy depends onimproving the visibility and working conditions of pineros andproviding them with a stronger voice in immigration and forestrypolicy-making.
Автор: Loomis, Erik Название: Empire of timber ISBN: 1107565030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107565036 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 32730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 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.
Автор: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker Название: Unicorn Incorporated: Curtis R. Barnes ISBN: 0962460281 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780962460289 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 32020.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Unicorn Incorporated celebrates the work and career of Seattle artist Curtis R. Barnes. For over five decades, Barnes has worked as an artist, illustrator, muralist, and community advocate. In his sculpture, painting, and drawing, he employs imagery derived from his vast experience, mystical erudition, and heritage. Throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, he produced searing social commentary in pen and ink, drawings that are as prescient and powerful today as they were then. The publication includes a poem by renowned musician Ishmael Butler, an extended interview with the artist, and an essay by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker on the legendary Omowale mural.
Автор: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee Название: Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America ISBN: 1439902143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439902141 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II
Автор: Loomis Название: Empire of Timber ISBN: 1107125499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107125490 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 93990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 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.
Автор: Gamboa, Erasmo Название: Bracero railroaders ISBN: 0295744278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295744278 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United States, particularly the West. Although both governments promised the workers adequate living arrangements and fair working conditions, most bracero railroaders lived in squalor, worked dangerous jobs, and were subject to harsh racial discrimination.
Making matters worse, the governments held a percentage of the workers’ earnings in a savings and retirement program that supposedly would await the men on their return to Mexico. However, rampant corruption within both the railroad companies and the Mexican banks meant that most workers were unable to collect what was rightfully theirs.
Historian Erasmo Gamboa recounts the difficult conditions, systemic racism, and decades-long quest for justice these men faced. The result is a pathbreaking examination that deepens our understanding of Mexican American, immigration, and labor histories in the twentieth-century U.S. West.
Автор: Dietrich William Название: Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River ISBN: 0295999322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295999326 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 29730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In this new edition of Northwest Passage , Dietrich updates the status of the mighty Columbia River, discussing the health of its salmon runs, the state of its dams, and the river’s growing importance in light of climate change.
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