Free Download Megan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City "
English | ISBN: 029575186X | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
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―consisting 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
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