Seattle from the margins : exclusion, erasure, and the making of a Pacific Coast city /

"From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor forc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Asaka, Megan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]
Colección:Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
Temas:
Minorities > Washington (State) > Seattle > History.
Migrant labor > Washington (State) > Seattle Region > History.
Indians of North America > Washington (State) > Seattle Region > Economic conditions.
Indians of North America > Washington (State) > Seattle Region > Social conditions > History.
Asian Americans > Washington (State) > Seattle Region > Economic conditions.
Asian Americans > Washington (State) > Seattle Region > Social conditions > History.
Immigrants > Washington (State) > Seattle > History.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
Asian Americans > Economic conditions.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
Indians of North America > Economic conditions.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Migrant labor.
Minorities.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Seattle (Wash.) > Emigration and immigration > History.
Seattle (Wash.) > Social conditions > History.
Seattle (Wash.) > Race relations > History.
Washington (State) > Seattle.
Washington (State) > Seattle Region.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The sawdust
  • Urban roots of Puget Sound agriculture
  • Race and radicalism in the lumber industry
  • Japanese hotels and housing reform
  • Labor and intimacy during the Great Depression
  • Demolition on the eve of war
  • Conclusion: Displacement and exclusion, past and present.

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