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Logging in the northern forest has been romanticized, with images
of log drives, plaid shirts, and bunkhouses in wide circulation.
Increasingly dismissed as a quaint, rural pastime, logging remains
one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States, with loggers
occupying a precarious position amid unstable markets, expanding
global competition, and growing labor discord. Examining a time of
transition and decline in Maine's forest economy, Andrew Egan
traces pathways for understanding the challenges that have faced
Maine's logging community and, by extension, the state's forestry
sector, from the postwar period through today. Seeking greater
profits, logging companies turned their crews loose at midcentury,
creating a workforce of independent contractors who were forced to
purchase expensive equipment and compete for contracts with the
mills. Drawing on his own experience with the region's forest
products industry, interviews with Maine loggers, media coverage,
and court documents, Egan follows the troubled recent history of
the industry and its battle for survival.
Logging in the northern forest has been romanticized, with images
of log drives, plaid shirts, and bunkhouses in wide circulation.
Increasingly dismissed as a quaint, rural pastime, logging remains
one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States, with loggers
occupying a precarious position amid unstable markets, expanding
global competition, and growing labor discord. Examining a time of
transition and decline in Maine's forest economy, Andrew Egan
traces pathways for understanding the challenges that have faced
Maine's logging community and, by extension, the state's forestry
sector, from the postwar period through today. Seeking greater
profits, logging companies turned their crews loose at midcentury,
creating a workforce of independent contractors who were forced to
purchase expensive equipment and compete for contracts with the
mills. Drawing on his own experience with the region's forest
products industry, interviews with Maine loggers, media coverage,
and court documents, Egan follows the troubled recent history of
the industry and its battle for survival.
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