Strong Winds and Widow Makers

<p>Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues, argues Steven C. Beda his new book <a href='https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p086823'>Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country</a>.  In a discussion with the <a href='https://www.laborradionetwork.org/'>Labor Radio Podcast Network</a> this week, Beda talked about how life experiences like hunting, fishing, foraging, and hiking imbued timber country with meanings and values that nurtured a deep sense of place in workers, their families, and their communities. This sense of place in turn shaped ideas about protection that sometimes clashed with the views of environmentalists--or the desires of employers. Music: <a href='https://youtu.be/qbh1mmKyqII'>Strong Winds and Widow Makers</a> - Buzz Martin <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE9JTGxnCxY&t=6s'>Bread and Roses</a> – The R.J. Phillips Band (includes video commemorating the Bread and Roses Strike, which began on January 11, 1912) Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome; to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at <a href='mailto:LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com'>LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Labor History Today is produced by <a href='https://unioncityradio.podbean.com/'>Union City Radio</a> and the <a href='https://lwp.georgetown.edu/'>Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor</a>.</p> <p>#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory  </p>