Diane J Purvis

Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves

Labor, Culture, and Politics in Southeast Alaska Canneries

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Produktbeschreibung

Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves explores the untold story of cannery workers in Southeast Alaska from 1878 through the Cold War, particularly how making a living was pitted against the economic realities of the day.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 196mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781496225887
• ISBN-10: 1496225880
• Artikelnr.: 61382047

Autorenporträt

Diane J. Purvis taught cultural history at Alaska Pacific University for twenty-five years. She is the author of The Drive of Civilization: The Stikine Forest versus Americanism.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. A Time before the Salmon Cans
2. The Tin Can Men
3. Metlakatla and the Tsimshian
4. From Norwegian Fjords to Alaskan Glaciers
5. Salmon and the Politics of Corporate Capitalism
6. The Immigrants Are Necessary but Unwelcome
7. The Rising Voices of Alaska Natives
8. The Alaskeros
9. Fighting Back with Unions in the 1930s
10. A Union of Their Own
11. The Inequities of War
12. The Hanna Hearings and Hydaburg
13. The Cannery Period Heyday Wanes
14. When Cannery Children Remember
Notes
Bibliography
Index