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Slain Wood

Papermaking and its Environmental Consequences in the American South

Autor: William Boyd
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press
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When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an...

Informații despre carte

Autor
William Boyd
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2015
Pagini
376
EAN
9781421418780
ISBN
1421418789
Enbook ID
09275676
Editura
Johns Hopkins University Press
Greutate
642
Dimensiuni
162 x 238 x 30

Descriere completă

When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region's number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp and paper industry in the American South during the twentieth century and the social and environmental changes that accompanied it. Drawing on extensive interviews and historical research, he tells the fascinating story of one of the region's most important but understudied industries. The Slain Wood reveals how a thoroughly industrialized forest was created out of a degraded landscape, uncovers the ways in which firms tapped into informal labor markets and existing inequalities of race and class to fashion a system for delivering wood to the mills, investigates the challenges of managing large paper making complexes, and details the ways in which mill managers and unions discriminated against black workers. It also shows how the industry's massive pollution loads significantly disrupted local environments and communities, leading to a long struggle to regulate and control that pollution.

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