Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30

by Lawrence M. Lipin

Book Overview

Focusing on Oregon in the 1910s and 1920s, Lawrence M. Lipin traces the shift in labor's thinking about the use of natural resources. As he shows, workers began with the so-called producerist idea that resources and land, whether rural or urban, should be put to productive use rather than set aside as "elitist" nature preserves. But working class views changed as the automobile gave people access to national parks, forests, and beaches. Workers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252073703
• ISBN13: 9780252073700
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"