| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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Book Review

Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30. By Lawrence M. Lipin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xv + 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $60.00, cloth; $25.00, paper.)

Like Robert Johnston's The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (Princeton, 2003), this carefully researched study challenges the conventional wisdom that Oregon's political culture has always been prudent and conservative by comparison with more insurgent traditions in neighboring Washington. To believe that conservatism and tepid class consciousness characterized Oregon is misleading, Lawrence Lipin argues, because it ignores union workers who, for a time, were committed "to the producerist assumptions of the single tax movement." Building upon pre-1920 producer affections for Henry George's single tax, organized workers persisted in their quest for "a graduated supertax on all uncultivated arable land" (pp. 19–20).

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