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"Logging in the northern forest has been romanticized, with images of log drives, plaid shirts, and bunkhouses in wide circulation. Increasingly dismissed as a quaint, rural pastime, logging remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States, with loggers occupying a precarious position amid unstable markets, expanding global competition, and growing labor discord. Examining a time of transition and decline in Maine's forest economy, Andrew Egan traces pathways for understanding the challenges that have faced Maine's logging community and, by extension, the state's forestry sector, from the postwar period through today. Seeking greater profits, logging companies turned their crews loose at midcentury, creating a workforce of independent contractors who were forced to purchase expensive equipment and compete for contracts with the mills. Drawing on his own experience with the region's forest products industry, interviews with Maine loggers, media coverage, and court documents, Egan follows the troubled recent history of the industry and its battle for survival"--
Travailleurs forestiers --- Bois --- Forêts --- Loggers --- Lumber trade --- Logging --- Commerce --- Exploitation --- Maine.
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In A Dissimulated Trade , Germán Jiménez-Montes sheds light on the role of foreigners in the Spanish empire. Making use of the rich collection of notarial deeds available at the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla , this book examines how a group of Dutch, Flemish and German merchants came to dominate the supply of timber in Seville. With this microhistory, Germán Jiménez-Montes offers a new account on the trade between Andalusia and northern Europe at the end of the sixteenth century, focusing on a resource that was essential for Seville's economy and Spain's imperial aspirations.
Early Modern History --- Economic History --- Migration History --- Social History --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- History of Spain --- anno 1500-1599 --- Seville --- Houthandel --- Kooplieden (buitenland) --- Europa, Noord --- Sevilla (Spanje) --- Lumber trade --- Lumber industry --- Timber industry --- Forest products industry --- Lumbering --- Seville (Spain) --- Europe, Northern --- Commerce --- Economic conditions. --- Sevilla (Spain) --- Sevilʹi︠a︡ (Spain) --- Sevilha (Spain) --- Siviglia (Spain) --- Northern Europe
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