"In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling...

"Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues. Steven C. Beda explores the complex true story of how and why timber- working communities have concerned themselves with the...

"Logging in the northern forest has been romanticized, with images of log drives, plaid shirts, and bunkhouses in wide circulation. Increasingly dismissed as a quaint, rural pastime, logging remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States, with loggers occupying a precarious position...

Intro -- Contents -- Map 1 / Coos County, Oregon -- Map 2 / Coos Bay area -- Prologue to the Revised Edition -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Introduction -- 1 / Poor Man's Paradise -- 2/ An Empire Itself -- 3 / The "Big Mill" and Its World -- 4 / Logging the Coos Timber -- 5 / Getting By...