Pirates of the Salish Sea: Labor, Mobility, and Environment in the Transnational West.
This article illustrates that a transnational perspective reveals how nature and work intertwined to shape workers' responses to evolving regional class relations in the western Canadian-US, borderlands. Labor and environment are intimately connected in all the West's extractive industries, and work...
| Publicado en: | Pacific Historical Review Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 587 - 628 |
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University of California Press
Nov2006
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