Laurie Mercier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3630009 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laurie Mercier |
| PRENOMES | Laurie |
| SOBRENOME | Mercier |
| ASSINATURA | MERCIER L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Washington State University Vancouver |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Reaching into the Community to Interpret Labor History
After flourishing in the late twentieth century, community labor history projects have languished in recent decades.1 Perhaps not anticipating the new spark of labor mobilization of the past few years, labor historians and local museums and historical societies have missed opportunities to document the stories of ordinary workers and their unions and educate and inspire others through public exhibits and programs.Both public historians and their …
Empire of Timber
Anyone who lived in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s remembers the bumper sticker, “Save a Logger, Eat an Owl,” which symbolized the contentious struggle between timber workers and environmentalists over the fate of the last of the ancient forests and the northern spotted owl. However, as Eric Loomis emphasizes in his new study, the assumption that workers and environmentalists have been forever hopelessly divided over the value and use of…
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
The threadbare flag of the Southern Cross, used by Victoria miners in their thwarted uprising against British colonial authority in 1854, graces the cover of Clare Wright's masterful social history
In Pursuit of Gold
Book Review| April 01 2013 In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West. By Sue Fawn Chung. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55 (cloth). Laurie Mercier Laurie Mercier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32…
We Are the Union
Gender, labor, and place
Focusing on western Canada and US Pacific Northwest industrial communities during the mid-twentieth century, Laurie Mercier explores how myths about place and work have intertwined to reinforce gender inequalities in logging, mining, and longshoring. Through examining the activities of women's auxiliaries of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the International Woodworkers of America, and the International Longshore and War…
Georgina Murray and David Peetz, Women of the Coal Rushes
Earning Power
Decades before business leaders in the 1930s declared Los Angeles a bastion of the open shop, women organized for social services, wage protection, and the right to join unions. In this new study of working women in the City of Angels, Eileen V. Wallis explores the lives of white-collar professionals, domestic servants, retail clerks, telephone operators, agricultural and factory workers, entrepreneurs, and service employees in the burgeoning mov…
The Good Times are all gone now
In this loving account of her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, Julie Whitesel Weston traces both the promise and perils of life in a Rocky Mountain mining town. Industrial mining offered jobs and a clos...
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Reconsidering Women and Gender in Mining
This article examines the neglected role of women in mining, long believed to be the most ‘masculine’ of industries. The authors probe how the gendered nature of mining work evolved over time and in different parts of the world. Since the nineteenth century, colonialism, capitalism and cultural traditions have shaped gender roles for women and men in the world's mining communities. The article examines how even as men and women joined in militant…
Mining Women
This book explores gender relations and women's work and activism in different parts of the world. It also explores the subject from multiple perspectives and links each of these not only to cultural
Engaging the public with digital primary sources
This collaborative database project, involving five universities and historical societies in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, has sought to encourage online researchers to think more deeply about the digitized primary sources featured. The project intended to serve as a model for other institutions that wanted to share collections and stimulate public interest in and use of those collections. This essay focuses on how we incorporated pedagogical el…
Colonization and Community
Journal Article Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class Get access Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class. By Belshaw John Douglas. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxx + 320 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth.) Laurie Mercier Laurie Mercier Washington S…
Remembering and Redefining Deindustrialized Youngstown
Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown. By Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 288 pages. $34.95 (cloth). COMMUNITY REACTIONS TO THE WAVE OF INDUSTRY SHUTDOWNS THAT HIT AMERICAN cities from the late 1970s through the 1990s became familiar and almost formulaic. First, a corporation announced a likely plant closure; next, unions and local and state officials scrambled to offer desperate conc…
Anaconda
Journal Article Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City Get access Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City. By Mercier Laurie. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xiv, 300 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn0-25202657-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn0-252-069889.) David Igler David Igler University of UtahSalt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Reworking Race, Class, and Gender into Pacific Northwest History
Instead of Fighting the Common Enemy”
Class, Gender, and Power in the Mining Communities of the Americas
From the Canadian rockies to the Chilean Andes, mining has dominated the economies and lives of many ofthe people inhabiting the mountainous backbone of the Americas. Although isolated from the main centres of national trade and industry, mining communities shared characteristics with cities rather than the rural areas that surrounded them. They were densely populated, industrial, and their residents worked for wages and sought the mutual associa…
The Native Home of Hope
Journal Article The Native Home of Hope: People and the Northern Rockies Get access The Native Home of Hope: People and the Northern Rockies. Edited by Bethell Thomas N. et al. (Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1986. xi + 196 pp. Illustrations, map. $12.50, paper.) Laurie Mercier Laurie Mercier Montana Historical Society Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 4, Octobe…
Getting it Down Right
Local historians have always relied on oral history to provide the details that escaped notice in the written record. With note pad in hand, historians questioned old-timers about their lives in neighborhoods or towns. They took notes of these conversations, trying to record faithfully a narrator's personality and the information, stories, and humor contained in the interview. Even though those notes only approximated the content and spirit of in…
Reconsidering Women and Gender in Mining
This article examines the neglected role of women in mining, long believed to be the most ‘masculine’ of industries. The authors probe how the gendered nature of mining work evolved over time and in different parts of the world. Since the nineteenth century, colonialism, capitalism and cultural traditions have shaped gender roles for women and men in the world's mining communities. The article examines how even as men and women joined in militant…
Reaching into the Community to Interpret Labor History
After flourishing in the late twentieth century, community labor history projects have languished in recent decades.1 Perhaps not anticipating the new spark of labor mobilization of the past few years, labor historians and local museums and historical societies have missed opportunities to document the stories of ordinary workers and their unions and educate and inspire others through public exhibits and programs.Both public historians and their …
Gender, labor, and place
Focusing on western Canada and US Pacific Northwest industrial communities during the mid-twentieth century, Laurie Mercier explores how myths about place and work have intertwined to reinforce gender inequalities in logging, mining, and longshoring. Through examining the activities of women's auxiliaries of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the International Woodworkers of America, and the International Longshore and War…
Georgina Murray and David Peetz, Women of the Coal Rushes
Reworking Race, Class, and Gender into Pacific Northwest History
Instead of Fighting the Common Enemy”
Getting it Down Right
Local historians have always relied on oral history to provide the details that escaped notice in the written record. With note pad in hand, historians questioned old-timers about their lives in neighborhoods or towns. They took notes of these conversations, trying to record faithfully a narrator's personality and the information, stories, and humor contained in the interview. Even though those notes only approximated the content and spirit of in…
Getting it Down Right
Local historians have always relied on oral history to provide the details that escaped notice in the written record. With note pad in hand, historians questioned old-timers about their lives in neighborhoods or towns. They took notes of these conversations, trying to record faithfully a narrator's personality and the information, stories, and humor contained in the interview. Even though those notes only approximated the content and spirit of in…
The Native Home of Hope
Journal Article The Native Home of Hope: People and the Northern Rockies Get access The Native Home of Hope: People and the Northern Rockies. Edited by Bethell Thomas N. et al. (Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1986. xi + 196 pp. Illustrations, map. $12.50, paper.) Laurie Mercier Laurie Mercier Montana Historical Society Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 4, Octobe…
Instead of Fighting the Common Enemy”
Class, Gender, and Power in the Mining Communities of the Americas
From the Canadian rockies to the Chilean Andes, mining has dominated the economies and lives of many ofthe people inhabiting the mountainous backbone of the Americas. Although isolated from the main centres of national trade and industry, mining communities shared characteristics with cities rather than the rural areas that surrounded them. They were densely populated, industrial, and their residents worked for wages and sought the mutual associa…
Reworking Race, Class, and Gender into Pacific Northwest History
Anaconda
Journal Article Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City Get access Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City. By Mercier Laurie. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xiv, 300 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn0-25202657-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn0-252-069889.) David Igler David Igler University of UtahSalt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Remembering and Redefining Deindustrialized Youngstown
Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown. By Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 288 pages. $34.95 (cloth). COMMUNITY REACTIONS TO THE WAVE OF INDUSTRY SHUTDOWNS THAT HIT AMERICAN cities from the late 1970s through the 1990s became familiar and almost formulaic. First, a corporation announced a likely plant closure; next, unions and local and state officials scrambled to offer desperate conc…
Colonization and Community
Journal Article Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class Get access Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class. By Belshaw John Douglas. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxx + 320 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth.) Laurie Mercier Laurie Mercier Washington S…
Engaging the public with digital primary sources
This collaborative database project, involving five universities and historical societies in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, has sought to encourage online researchers to think more deeply about the digitized primary sources featured. The project intended to serve as a model for other institutions that wanted to share collections and stimulate public interest in and use of those collections. This essay focuses on how we incorporated pedagogical el…
Mining Women
This book explores gender relations and women's work and activism in different parts of the world. It also explores the subject from multiple perspectives and links each of these not only to cultural
Reconsidering Women and Gender in Mining
This article examines the neglected role of women in mining, long believed to be the most ‘masculine’ of industries. The authors probe how the gendered nature of mining work evolved over time and in different parts of the world. Since the nineteenth century, colonialism, capitalism and cultural traditions have shaped gender roles for women and men in the world's mining communities. The article examines how even as men and women joined in militant…
Featured reviews
The Good Times are all gone now
In this loving account of her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, Julie Whitesel Weston traces both the promise and perils of life in a Rocky Mountain mining town. Industrial mining offered jobs and a clos...
Earning Power
Decades before business leaders in the 1930s declared Los Angeles a bastion of the open shop, women organized for social services, wage protection, and the right to join unions. In this new study of working women in the City of Angels, Eileen V. Wallis explores the lives of white-collar professionals, domestic servants, retail clerks, telephone operators, agricultural and factory workers, entrepreneurs, and service employees in the burgeoning mov…
Gender, labor, and place
Focusing on western Canada and US Pacific Northwest industrial communities during the mid-twentieth century, Laurie Mercier explores how myths about place and work have intertwined to reinforce gender inequalities in logging, mining, and longshoring. Through examining the activities of women's auxiliaries of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the International Woodworkers of America, and the International Longshore and War…
Georgina Murray and David Peetz, Women of the Coal Rushes
In Pursuit of Gold
Book Review| April 01 2013 In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West. By Sue Fawn Chung. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55 (cloth). Laurie Mercier Laurie Mercier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32…
We Are the Union
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
The threadbare flag of the Southern Cross, used by Victoria miners in their thwarted uprising against British colonial authority in 1854, graces the cover of Clare Wright's masterful social history
Empire of Timber
Anyone who lived in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s remembers the bumper sticker, “Save a Logger, Eat an Owl,” which symbolized the contentious struggle between timber workers and environmentalists over the fate of the last of the ancient forests and the northern spotted owl. However, as Eric Loomis emphasizes in his new study, the assumption that workers and environmentalists have been forever hopelessly divided over the value and use of…
Reaching into the Community to Interpret Labor History
After flourishing in the late twentieth century, community labor history projects have languished in recent decades.1 Perhaps not anticipating the new spark of labor mobilization of the past few years, labor historians and local museums and historical societies have missed opportunities to document the stories of ordinary workers and their unions and educate and inspire others through public exhibits and programs.Both public historians and their …
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