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Author Cornford, Daniel A., 1947-

Title Workers and dissent in the redwood empire / Daniel A. Cornford.

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1987.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index.
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Summary In the history business, calling a work a classic can be a double-edged sword. Daniel Cornford's book is a classic in the best way. His analysis of California's redwood forests and those who turned them into lumber is a finely wrought piece of historical scholarship. Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire focuses attention on a place that needed more study, the redwood forest belt of far northern California. It excavates a period either hidden or removed from view, the second half of the nineteenth century and the first few decades of the twentieth. Cornford connects California's story of "gold and mineral" to "red and wood," mxing high drama amidst those impossibly tall trees: trouble in the guise of Labor versus Capital tensions; tugs of war over power, pay, and work conditions; and no small amount of violence. It is all done in the form of a careful, scholarly reckoning, with many chapters and many footnotes, all tightly wound around a scholarly narrative that explains place and nature, labor and capital, in ways that bring our understanding of Gilded Age troubles into a dark forest where very few of us would think to look.
Subject Lumbermen -- Labor unions -- California -- Humboldt County -- History.
Lumbermen -- California -- Humboldt County -- History.
Humboldt County (Calif.) -- Politics and government.
Humboldt County (Calif.) -- Economic conditions.
Humboldt County (Calif.) -- Social conditions.
Exploitants forestiers -- Syndicats -- Californie -- Humboldt -- Histoire.
Exploitants forestiers -- Californie -- Humboldt -- Histoire.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Economic history
Lumbermen
Lumbermen -- Labor unions
Politics and government
Social conditions
California -- Humboldt County https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJj4xJB7k34yxdjP6xRdwC
Holzindustrie
Arbeiterbewegung
Humboldt County, Calif.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1870-1907
Indexed Term Humboldt County (Calif.) Economic conditions
Humboldt County (Calif.) Politics and government
Humboldt County (Calif.) Social conditions
Lumbermen California Humboldt County History
Lumbermen Labor unions California Humboldt County History
Genre/Form History
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
Other Form: Print version: Cornford, Daniel A., 1947- Workers and dissent in the redwood empire. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1987 (DLC) 87006526 (OCoLC)16715410
ISBN 9781439917565 (electronic bk.)
1439917566 (electronic bk.)
0877224994 (alk. paper)
9780877224990 (alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000064303347
AU@ 000074157285

 
    
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