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From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the
beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted
overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal,
extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city
benefitted from this mobile labor force-consisting largely of
Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants-municipal authorities,
elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the
spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban
progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of
their historical presence in the city. Tracing histories from
unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses,
and so-called slums, Seattle from the Margins shows how migrant
laborers worked alongside each other, competed over jobs, and
forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of
the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical presence of
marginalized groups and asserting their significance in the
development of the city, Megan Asaka offers a deeper understanding
of Seattle's complex past.
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the
beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted
overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal,
extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city
benefitted from this mobile labor force-consisting largely of
Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants-municipal authorities,
elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the
spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban
progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of
their historical presence in the city. Tracing histories from
unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses,
and so-called slums, Seattle from the Margins shows how migrant
laborers worked alongside each other, competed over jobs, and
forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of
the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical presence of
marginalized groups and asserting their significance in the
development of the city, Megan Asaka offers a deeper understanding
of Seattle's complex past.
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