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From Producerism to Consumerism - Lawrence M. Lipin Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xv + 213 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03125-0; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07370-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Adam J. Hodges
Affiliation:
University of Houston, Clear Lake

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2010

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References

1 A recent exception is Montrie, Chad, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States (Chapel Hill, 2008)Google Scholar, esp, ch. 4, “Degrees of Separation: Nature and the Shift from Farmer to Miner to Factory Hand in Southern West Virginia.”

2 Warren, Louis S., The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (New Haven, 1997)Google Scholar; Jacoby, Karl, Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Berkeley, 2001).Google Scholar

3 Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (New York, 1990)Google Scholar; Frank, Dana, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919–1929 (New York, 1994).Google Scholar

4 Johnston, Robert D., The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (Princeton, 2003).Google Scholar

5 For an excellent examination of this theme, see Bederman, Gail, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917 (Chicago, 1995).CrossRefGoogle Scholar