{"product_id":"cutover-capitalism","title":"Cutover Capitalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"ls-nav\"\u003e\n\u003cul id=\"coda-slider-9-nav-ul\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"liquid-slider\" id=\"coda-slider-9\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel px-0 coda-slider-9-panel ls-panel clone\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-wrapper px-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-vestige\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel px-0 coda-slider-9-panel ls-panel currentPanel\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-wrapper px-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-vestige\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2024 ASEH George Perkins Marsh Prize Runner-up\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did these communities continue to create value and meaning in these marginal lands?\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprovides a new perspective on the process of industrialization in America through the study of rural workers in a cutover landscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack when resources started running scarce, the environment of the forest and bodies of workers became the natural resources from which mills and landowners extracted. Bodies and cutover landscapes were mobilized in new ways to increase the scale and efficiency of production—a brutal process for workers, human and animal alike. In the Northern Forest, an industrial working class formed in relation to the unique ways that workers' bodies were used to produce value and in relation to the seasonal cycles of the forest environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCutover Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an innovative historical study that combines methodological approaches from labor history, environmental history, and the new history of capitalism. The book tells a character-driven yet theoretically sophisticated story about what it was like to live through this process of industrialization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"title\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Blurring the boundary between exploiting trees and exploiting workers,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCutover Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an interesting re-interpretation of the field of forest history, a discipline that has focused all too heavily on woods technology and not enough on labor process.”\u003cbr\u003e— Richard Judd, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSecond Nature: An Environmental History of New England\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A conceptually brilliant history that instantly becomes critically important for both labor and environmental historians.\" \u003cbr\u003e— Erik Loomis, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA History of American in Ten Strikes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With this compelling study, Jason Newton achieves an impressive disciplinary synthesis that casts new light on land and life in northern New England.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCutover Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a must-read for forest and environmental historians—and many more besides. Insights drawn from memory studies, the history of capitalism, labor history, ecology, and experience reveal much about the exploitation of people and non-human nature in the past, and raise important questions about the injustices and sustainability of our current circumstances.\" \u003cbr\u003e— Graeme Wynn, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnvironment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"817 UChicago Press Dist.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390529757319,"sku":"Newton 9781959000297","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0363\/1621\/7479\/files\/newton_cutover_des_cov_rgb.jpg?v=1785781071","url":"https:\/\/shoptheredcaboosewv.com\/products\/cutover-capitalism","provider":"The Red Caboose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}