Author: William Powell Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
The Tribe of Black Ulysses
Author: William Powell Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
American Lumber Industry
Author: United States. Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Lumber Industry: Conditions in production and wholesale distribution including wholesale prices
Author:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
The Lumber Industry: Conditions in production and wholesale distribution including wholesale prices
Author: United States. Bureau of Corporations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
The Lumber Industry
Author: United States. Bureau of Corporations
Publisher:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Lumberjacks and Legislators
Author: William G. Robbins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585440252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For years the logging industry and the rich timberlands of the East and West coasts have evoked images of Jigger Jones and Paul Bunyan, lusty lumbermen of folk history. Behind these myths, however, lie the realities of ruthless competition, heedless exploitation of forestlands, and massive overproduction that once threatened to destroy the lumber industry. William G. Robbins reveals a sharply revisionist view of the lumber industry in the first half of the twentieth century, a period of drastic growth and change. He offers a unique national perspective on the dominant figures in logging--the large-scale plant, mill, and timberland owners whose decisions were shaped by profit seeking. It is a story of unbalanced production, economic gains and losses, the slow maturation of industrial capitalism, and the alarming toll in social and human costs. Modernizers in the industry developed trade associations as a means of controlling the widespread disorder. But these associations, dependent of voluntary and cooperative efforts, were relatively ineffective in the early years of the twentieth century. The fortunes of the lumber industry continued to fluctuate wildly until the Second World War, when lumbermen gained much of the legislative support they had sought so long from the federal government. This account will especially appeal to students of lumber and forest history as well as to historians, political scientists, and economists seeking a new approach to American political economy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585440252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For years the logging industry and the rich timberlands of the East and West coasts have evoked images of Jigger Jones and Paul Bunyan, lusty lumbermen of folk history. Behind these myths, however, lie the realities of ruthless competition, heedless exploitation of forestlands, and massive overproduction that once threatened to destroy the lumber industry. William G. Robbins reveals a sharply revisionist view of the lumber industry in the first half of the twentieth century, a period of drastic growth and change. He offers a unique national perspective on the dominant figures in logging--the large-scale plant, mill, and timberland owners whose decisions were shaped by profit seeking. It is a story of unbalanced production, economic gains and losses, the slow maturation of industrial capitalism, and the alarming toll in social and human costs. Modernizers in the industry developed trade associations as a means of controlling the widespread disorder. But these associations, dependent of voluntary and cooperative efforts, were relatively ineffective in the early years of the twentieth century. The fortunes of the lumber industry continued to fluctuate wildly until the Second World War, when lumbermen gained much of the legislative support they had sought so long from the federal government. This account will especially appeal to students of lumber and forest history as well as to historians, political scientists, and economists seeking a new approach to American political economy.
American Lumberman
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1567
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1567
Book Description
Forest Resources, Lumber Industry and Lumber Export Trade of Finland
Author: United States. Department of Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
History of the Lumber Industry of America
Author: James Elliott Defebaugh
Publisher: Chicago : The American Lumberman
ISBN:
Category : Lumbering
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : The American Lumberman
ISBN:
Category : Lumbering
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Forest Resources, Lumber Industry and Lumber Export Trade of Norway
Author: United States. Department of Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description