ISBN:
9780295750675
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 258 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Emil and Kathleen Sick book series in Western history and biography
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Asaka, Megan Seattle from the margins
DDC:
305.8009797/772
Keywords:
Minorities History
;
Migrant labor History
;
Indians of North America Economic conditions
;
Indians of North America Social conditions
;
History
;
Asian Americans Economic conditions
;
Asian Americans Social conditions
;
History
;
Immigrants History
;
Seattle (Wash.) Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Seattle (Wash.) Social conditions
;
History
;
Seattle (Wash.) Race relations
;
History
;
Seattle, Wash.
;
Indianer
;
Asiatischer Einwanderer
;
Arbeiter
;
Soziale Situation
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Geschichte 1850-1945
Abstract:
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 -- On the eve of war -- Conclusion: Displacement and exclusion, past and present.
Abstract:
"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 force that consisted largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants, municipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of their historical presence in the city. Tracing histories from unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses, and so-called slums, Seattle from the Margins shows how migrant laborers worked alongside each other, competed over jobs, and forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical presence of marginalized groups and asserting their significance in the development of the city, Megan Asaka offers a deeper understanding of Seattle's complex past"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
