"Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves explores the untold story of cannery workers in southeast Alaska from the Russian era through the Cold War, particularly how making a living was pitted against the economic realities of the day"--
Publisher:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-358) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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
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