Provides a lively and readable informal history of the labour, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth century until World War II. This book rescues these working-class activists from obscurity and places them at the centre of southwest Washington's history.
The Red Coast is a lively, readable, and informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth century until World War II. The book serves as a hidden history for a region frequently identified with conservatism, rescuing these working-class activists from obscurity and placing them at the center of southwest Washington's history. Topics include the Wobblies, the labor wars of the 1910s and 1930s, and the lumber and maritime industries. Labor historians, scholars, and general readers with interest in the working class history of Southwest Washington will welcome this comprehensive and accessible account.
