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Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

Megan Asaka
4.27/5 (122 ratings)
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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.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
270 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
University of Washington Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0295750685
ISBN13:
9780295750682
kindle Asin:
B0BG9MY7G3

Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

Megan Asaka
4.27/5 (122 ratings)
Read Download
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.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
270 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
University of Washington Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0295750685
ISBN13:
9780295750682
kindle Asin:
B0BG9MY7G3

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