East Texas lumber workers an economic and social picture, 1870-1950.

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In 1950 a million Texans--more than a tenth of the entire population of the state--lived in a region where one family in every two earned less than $2,000 a year. Composing that region are the thirty-two counties of northeastern Texas in which the lumber industry is concentrated. In eleven of these...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Ruth Alice, 1889-1979
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, University of Texas Press, 1961.
Temas:
Lumbermen > Texas, East.
Exploitants forestiers > Texas (Est)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Lumbermen
East Texas
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • 1. Land of Deep Poverty
  • 2. Development of the Lumber Industry
  • 3. The Industry as an Employer
  • 4. A Peculiar People
  • 5. A Day's Work, A Day's Pay
  • 6. Wages
  • Minus...
  • 7. What the Dollar Would Buy
  • 8. A Judgment of Efficiency
  • 9. The Company Town
  • 10. Labor Unrest in the Pineries
  • 11. Decision for Future Generations
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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