| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30. By Lawrence M. Lipin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xviii, 213 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03125-0. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07370-0.)
In this intelligent monograph, Lawrence M. Lipin traces a significant shift in labor rhetoric and politics that "had a revolutionary effect on the way that Oregon labor activists spoke, thought, and wrote about nature" (p. 98). That shift revealed the emergence of a "modern sensibility about nature," based on a balance of productive labor and democratic leisure across Oregon's landscape (p. 14).	1
In the 1920s, as workers took to an expanding road system in inexpensive automobiles, they softened their moral stance that nature must be made productive through labor. This shift realigned rural-urban coalitions in Oregon and drove labor politics away from Henry George's producer-oriented single tax, toward an income tax, state-funded roads, and wildlife conservation programs.	. . .

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