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- Title
Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in the Pacific Northwest Timber Country.
- Authors
Korneski, Kurt
- Abstract
"Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in the Pacific Northwest Timber Country" by Steven C. Beda explores the history of occupancy and industry in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The book focuses on the commodification of nature, particularly the transformation of trees into lumber for profit. Beda argues that workers in the timber industry developed a strong impulse to steward the forests due to their reliance on them for survival. He also critiques the popular understanding of rural working people and advocates for a more inclusive and effective approach to forest management that includes those who live and work in the woods. However, the book has been criticized for its limited coverage of Canadian parts of the study area and its lack of focus on the role of Indigenous peoples in the history of settlement and dispossession.
- Subjects
TIMBER; ILLEGAL logging; WIDOWS; FOREST conservation; GLOBAL warming; PRESCRIBED burning
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-10948973