Download or read book Chinese in the Woods written by Sue Fawn Chung and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.

Download or read book By products of the Lumber Industry written by Henry Kreitzer Benson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lumber Industry written by United States. Bureau of Corporations and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mills of Humboldt County 1910 1945 written by Fortuna Depot Museum Susan J.P. O’Hara and Alex Service and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequoia sempervirens, California coastal redwood, was Humboldt County's economic mainstay from the 1850s onwards. By the early 20th century, harvesting "red gold" was the major industry along California's North Coast, with Humboldt at the forefront of the industry. The first half of the 20th century saw technological changes in logging and milling. New uses for redwood included cigar boxes, "presto-logs," and core logs for plywood. The industry began reforestation practices, growing their own seedlings as early as 1907. World War I and the Great Depression impacted the industry, as did activism to preserve the redwoods. In the 1930s, the largest stand of old-growth redwoods was preserved, and the turmoil of the 1935 strike resulted in several strikers being killed in Eureka. This book explores Humboldt's early-20th-century lumber industry and day-to-day realities of life in the mills and woods in an era underrepresented in published logging history.

Download or read book A History of the Lumber Industry in the State of New York written by William Freeman Fox and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lumber Industry Conditions in production and wholesale distribution including wholesale prices written by United States. Bureau of Corporations and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lumber Industry Conditions in production and wholesale distribution including wholesale prices written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Organizations of the Lumber Industry written by Wilson Compton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pamphlets on the Lumber Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mechanization in the Lumber Industry written by Alfred J. Van Tassel and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book City of Wood written by James Michael Buckley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West. California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional “city.” This city consisted of a far-reaching network of spaces, produced as company owners and workers arrayed men and machines to extract resources and create human commodities from the region’s rich natural environment. Combining labor, urban, industrial, and social history, City of Wood employs a variety of sources—including contemporary newspaper articles, novels, and photographs—to explore the architectural landscape of lumber, from backwoods logging camps and company towns in the woods to busy lumber docks and the homes of workers and owners in San Francisco. By imagining the redwood lumber industry as a single community spread across multiple sites—a “City of Wood”—Buckley demonstrates how capitalist resource extraction links different places along the production value chain. The result is a paradigm shift in architectural history that focuses not just on the evolution of individual building design across time, but also on economic connections that link the center and periphery across space.

Download or read book The New York Lumber Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lumberman s Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lumber Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special List written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tribe of Black Ulysses written by William Powell Jones and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those workers have been almost completely ignored by scholars. Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as on manuscript sources, local newspapers, and government documents, The Tribe of Black Ulysses explores black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in three sawmill communities (Elizabethtown, South Carolina, Chapman, Alabama, and Bogalusa, Louisiana). By restoring black lumber workers to the history of southern industrialization, William P. Jones reveals that industrial employment was not incompatible - as previous historians have assumed - with the racial segregation and political disfranchisement that defined African American life in the Jim Crow South. At the same time, he complicates an older tradition of southern sociology that viewed industrialization as socially disruptive and morally corrupting to African American social and cultural traditions rooted in agriculture. William P. Jones is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Barrett, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Nelson Lichtenstein.