A Richer Harvest
Table of Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgments
1. Clearing the Ground
To the Oregon Emigrants of 1846
Fanny Adams Cooper, West by Train
James Stevens, The Old Warhorse
Orland E. Esval, Member of the Crew
Dennis "Dinny" Murphy, I Found My Likings in the Mines
Clyde Rice, from
Nordi's Gift
Sam Churchill, from
Big Sam
Woody Guthrie, Big Grand Coolee Dam
Pat Koehler, Reminiscence on the Women Shipbuilders of World War II
Willie Daniels, from
Working on the Bomb
Ken Kesey, from
Sometimes a Great Notion
Clemens Starck, Putting in Footings
Kate Braid, Girl on the Crew
Kim Barnes, from
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country
2. The Industrial Frontier
Charles Oluf Olsen, Zero Hour in the Factory
Hazel Hall, Instruction
Francis Seufert, Chinese
H.L. Davis, Steel Gang
Joseph B. Halm, Recollection of the Fires of 1910
The Seattle General Strike of 1919
Charles Vindex, Survival on the High Plains, 1929-1934
Oregon Labor Press, If America Should Go Red?
Ralph Winstead, Johnson the Gypo
Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave
Anise, Centralia Pictures
Howard Morgan, Recollection of Tom Burns of Burnside
Hamish Scott MacKay, from
My Experiences in the United States
Gary Snyder, The Late Snow and the Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-Four
Robert Wrigley, The Sinking of Clay City
Tess Gallagher, Black Money
Henry Carlile, Graveyard Shift
Joseph Millar, Tax Man
Jesus Maria "El Flaco" Maldonado, Memorias de Cesar Chavez
3. Working Ahead
Ernest Callenbach, from
Ecotopia
Douglas Coupland, from
Generation X
David Axelrod, Skill of the Heart
Craig Lesley, from
River Song
Sherman Alexie, from
Indian Killer
Kent Anderson, from
Night Dogs
Jim Bodeen, Replenishing the Neighborhood
John Rember, from
Cheerleaders from Gomorrah
Eileen Gunn, Stable Strategies for Middle Management
Ursula K. Le Guin, from
The New Atlantis
Bibliographic Citations and Permissions
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