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Hard Times in Paradise – Coos Bay, Oregon de William G. Robbins

Hard Times in Paradise – Coos Bay, Oregon: Hard Times in Paradise

Autor William G. Robbins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2006

Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay's transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home to the Coquille Indian Tribe's The Mill Casino.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295985480
ISBN-10: 0295985488
Pagini: 236
Ilustrații: illustrations, maps
Dimensiuni: 156 x 228 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria Hard Times in Paradise

Recenzii

"Relying heavily on interviews with residents of the Oregon coast, Robbins focuses on the social history of a community and the impact on it of outside forces. He examines workers, work and living conditions, technologies, unemployment, and ways of surviving joblessness. He explores the rise and decline of labor unions and writes of mills--as well as of woods and of small firms (the "gyppos”) and the giants such as Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific.” Richard S. Kirkendall, Western Historical Quarterly"Historians will find this study useful in its survey of the southern Oregon timber industry, in its indictment of the unwise exploitation of resources in the West, and . . . as a model for a study that can be read and appreciated by those who matter most--the people who are the history.” Allan Kent Powell, American Historical Review"Both scholars and general readers will find this book a cogent microcosmic chronicle of Oregon’s leading industry told in very human terms.” Craig Wollner, Oregon Historical Quarterly

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Cuprins

Map 1 Coos County, Oregon
Map 2 Coos Bay area

Prologue to the Revised Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction
1) Poor Man's Paradise
2) An Empire Itself
3) The "Big Mill" and Its World
4) Logging the Coos Timber
5) Getting By
6) Surviving the Great Depression
7) The Second World War
8) Lumber Capital of the World
9) Timber Fever
10) Bosses and Workers
11) Hard Times and Survivors
Post Mortem: Reflections on the Present Condition
Epilogue to the Revised Edition
Notes
Index

Descriere

A new Prologue and Epilogue updates this story of Coos Bay's transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community.