Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves : Labor, Culture, and Politics in Southeast Alaska Canneries /

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"Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves explores the untold story of cannery workers in southeast Alaska from the Russian era through the Cold War, particularly how making a living was pitted against the economic realities of the day"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Purvis, Diane J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Salmon canning industry.
Salmon canneries.
Salmon canning industry > Alaska > History.
Salmon canneries > Alaska > History.
Cannery workers > Alaska > Economic conditions.
Cannery workers > Alaska > Social conditions.
Alaska.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A time before the salmon cans
  • The tin can men
  • Metlakatla and the Tsimshian
  • From Norwegian fjords to Alaskan glaciers
  • Salmon and the politics of corporate capitalism
  • The immigrants are necessary but unwelcome
  • The rising voices of Alaska natives
  • The alaskeros
  • Fighting back with unions inthe 1930s
  • A union of their own
  • The inequities of war
  • The Hanna hearings and Hydaburg
  • The cannery period heyday wanes
  • When cannery children remember

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