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

by Lawrence M. Lipin
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780252073700
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
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  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: GBP 23.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 404 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Public Policy / Environmental Policy

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 not only accepted the preservation of nature for recreation, they pressured state agencies to provide more outdoor opportunities. Fish and game commissioners responded with more intensive hatchery operations while wildlife advocates pushed for designated wilderness. In these and other ways, the labor movement's shifting relationship to nature reveals the complicated development of wildlife policy and its own battles with consumerism.

An innovative blend of environmental and labor history, Workers and the Wild examines the battles over the proper use of nature in the early twentieth century.

Lawrence M. Lipin is a professor of history at Pacific University and author of Eleanor Baldwin and the Woman's Point of View: New Thought Radicalism in Portland's Progressive Era.

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