Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30 (Working Class in American History)

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In an innovative blend of environmental and labor history, Workers and the Wild examines the changing terms on which battles over the correct use of nature were fought in the early twentieth century. Specializing in Oregon in the 1910s and 1920s, Lawrence M. Lipin traces labor’s shift in thinking about natural resources. They began with the ‘producerist’ idea that resources and land, both rural and urban, must be put to productive use, and that those who do are most entitled to access to them. They later shifted to a ‘consumerist’ view under which resources must be to be had for public and recreational use.

 

While labor was once to start with resistant to the elitism of safe nature preserves, working-class views changed as automobiles became more affordable, and gained increased access to national parks, forests, and beaches. They due to this fact accepted the preservation of nature for recreation, and even began to pressure state agencies to provide more outside opportunities. Even as fish and game commissioners responded with ever more intensive hatchery operations, wildlife advocates began a push for designated “wilderness” areas. In these and other ways, the labor movement’s shifting relationship to nature reveals the complicated development of wildlife policy and its own battles with consumerism.


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