Michael G Hillard

Shredding Paper

The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

"From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine was the nation's leading producer of paper, with companies like Great Northern Paper, Oxford Paper and S. D. Warren owning more than half of the state's land, running company towns, and dominating politics throughout the state. But by the 1980s, the workforce was less than a quarter of what it once was. In this book, Michael G. Hillard details what happened to destroy the industry"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781501753152
• ISBN-10: 1501753150
• Artikelnr.: 59322272

Autorenporträt

Michael G. Hillard

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Detroit of Paper
Part 1: THE RISE OF MAINE'S MIGHTY PAPER INDUSTRY
1. A Rags to Riches Story
2. The Paradoxes of Paper Mill Employment
Part 2: TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP CHANGE IN THE PAPER PLANTATION AND THE RISE
OF A NEW MILITANCY, 1960-80
3. The Fall of Mother Warren
4. Madawaska Rebellion
5. Cutting Off the Canadians
Part 3: FINANCIALIZATION, RESISTANCE, AND FOLK POLITICAL ECONOMY
6. Fear and Loathing on the Low and High Roads
7. The High Road Cometh
8. Memory, Enterprise Consciousness, and Historical Perspective among
Maine's Paper Workers
Epilogue: Paper Workers' Folk Political Economy versus Neoliberalism