Tag: Labor
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Decolonizing Labor in the Caribbean: A Conversation with Shona Jackson
in PodcastsDr. Shona Jackson discusses labor in the Caribbean and the need for radical, collective labor histories that include Creole groups and Indigenous peoples.
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In Hawaiʻi, Plantation Tourism Tastes Like Pineapple
in EssaysThe Dole pineapple plantation has a destructive history of transforming the Hawaiian Islands. Mallory Huard describes how that continues today in the tourism industry.
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Hey Snow! It’s Not You, It’s Us
in EssaysFrom toxic street slush to plowed-in cars, winter can be frustrating. But it doesn’t have to be. A historian uncovers 19th-century lessons for working with—not against—the snow.
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Prisons for Sale, Histories Not Included
in EssaysEnvironmentalists played a disturbing role in the Adirondacks’ prison-building boom. As the state now shutters many of those facilities, we’re at risk of forgetting that.
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How Indigenous Hawaiians Helped Build the Pacific Northwest Economy
in EssaysWhen fur, lumber, and salmon ruled the Northwest frontier, Hawaiian labor was at the heart of it all. An environmental historian retells the story of 19th-century Oregon and British Columbia from a trans-Pacific perspective.
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A Firsthand Account of Finding Nature on a U.S. Military Base
in EssaysWe need to expand our ideas of nature to include the battlefield. A historian explains why we should view soldiers’ daily lives as part of the natural world.
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How the Other Half Loved Nature
in ReviewsA recent book shows Chicago’s turn-of-the-century black and immigrant laborers embraced the great outdoors. Did they have any other choice?
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The Immigrants Who Supplied the Smithsonian’s Fish Collection
in EssaysThe Smithsonian’s fish collection preserves not just specimens but the labor and knowledge of immigrant fishermen on the California coast.
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Ecological Homes: Making Women, Men, and Nature
in EssaysAt the New Alchemy Institute’s bioshelters, green technologies promised social revolution. But women still found themselves stuck with the dishes.
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Bittersweet Catch: Korea’s Diving Women and the Pitfalls of Cultural Preservation
in EssaysWhile attending a school set up to train the next generation of haenyeo divers, one woman grapples with the historical and ongoing complexities of maintaining the traditional practice.