Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great, undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In 1958, Congress awarded the new state over 100 million acres to promote economic development. In 1971, it gave Native groups more than 40 million acres to settle land claims and facilitate the building of an 800-mile oil pipeline. Spurred by the newly militant environmental movement, it also began to consider the preservation of Alaska's magnificent scenery and wildlife. Northern Landscapes is the first comprehensive examination of the campaign to preserve wild Alaska through...
Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great, undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In 1958, Congress awarded the new ...
Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great, undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In 1958, Congress awarded the new state over 100 million acres to promote economic development. In 1971, it gave Native groups more than 40 million acres to settle land claims and facilitate the building of an 800-mile oil pipeline. Spurred by the newly militant environmental movement, it also began to consider the preservation of Alaska's magnificent scenery and wildlife. Northern Landscapes is the first comprehensive examination of the campaign to preserve wild Alaska through...
Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great, undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In 1958, Congress awarded the new ...
"Nelson... is] one of the country's leading labor scholars.... His] work provides an invaluable... guide to understanding a critical region...." --Ohio History
..". I learned quite a lot from reading Farm and Factory, and this will certainly be the case for all who pick up this valuable and informative book." --Minnesota History
..". a valuable source for anyone concerned with regional and national tendencies in labor relations and ecomomic change over the last century." --American Political Science Review
..". a useful and well written synthesis of labor history in the...
"Nelson... is] one of the country's leading labor scholars.... His] work provides an invaluable... guide to understanding a critical region...." ...
Ruth McKenney's compelling novel of class and industrial conflict in Akron, Ohio, first appeared in 1939 and was widely acclaimed. McKenney was a capable journalist who had spent a year and a half in Akron, the heart of the tire industry, a city that she said "smells like a rubber band smoldering in an ashtray."
Industrial Valley vividly portrays an industrial city crippled by the country's economic failures and also provides a stirring example of fiction predicated on social and political principles. It will intrigue readers for its contemporary as well as its historical...
Ruth McKenney's compelling novel of class and industrial conflict in Akron, Ohio, first appeared in 1939 and was widely acclaimed. McKenney was a c...
In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native born and highly paid, and labor organizations had a decisive influence on the industry. Daniel Nelson tells the story of these changes as a case study of union growth against a background of critical developments in twentieth-century economic...
In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that em...
