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Ragged coast, rugged coves : labor, culture, and politics in southeast Alaska canneries / Diane J. Purvis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purvis, Diane J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cannery workers--Alaska--Social conditions.
- Cannery workers.
- Cannery workers--Alaska--Economic conditions.
- Salmon canneries--Alaska--History.
- Salmon canneries.
- Salmon canning industry--Alaska--History.
- Salmon canning industry.
- History.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Alaska.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 pages) : maps
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-358) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496228512
- 1496228510
- Publisher Number:
- 40030692312
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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