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Empire of Timber - Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests (Hardcover)
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Empire of Timber - Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Environment and History
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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.
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