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"""An essential addition to historical studies of Alaska, this well-researched work explores how Alaska Natives have been conspicuously disadvantaged in the fishing industry, notably the fish cannery business. . . . Purvis (formerly, Alaska Pacific Univ.) pays close and sympathetic attention to the rising voices of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood. Attention to women's activities is refreshing and important. This well-written book is an eye-opening look into a multiethnic world hitherto imagined but insufficiently described.""—B. M. Gough, Choice “Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves demonstrates that indigenous peoples in Alaska engaged capitalism and colonialism on several levels and were not simply overwhelmed by them. Alaskan workers built alliances that had an important impact on and legacy for Southeast Alaska—a history that deserves to be remembered.”—Chris Friday, author of Organizing Asian-American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870–1942 “Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves paints a picture of an Alaska with a racially diversified population . . . and offers a refreshing view of women in the workplace and in labor organizing. This book is really a fascinating narrative, and it fills an important niche in the history of Alaska, the fishing and canning industries in the West, and the labor movement.”—Roberta Ulrich, author of Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River"

Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves demonstrates that indigenous peoples in Alaska engaged capitalism and colonialism on several levels and were not simply overwhelmed by them. Alaskan workers built alliances that had an important impact on and legacy for Southeast Alaska--a history that deserves to be remembered. --Chris Friday, author of Organizing Asian-American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942 Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves paints a picture of an Alaska with a racially diversified population . . . and offers a refreshing view of women in the workplace and in labor organizing. This book is really a fascinating narrative, and it fills an important niche in the history of Alaska, the fishing and canning industries in the West, and the labor movement. --Roberta Ulrich, author of Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River

""An essential addition to historical studies of Alaska, this well-researched work explores how Alaska Natives have been conspicuously disadvantaged in the fishing industry, notably the fish cannery business. . . . Purvis (formerly, Alaska Pacific Univ.) pays close and sympathetic attention to the rising voices of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood. Attention to women's activities is refreshing and important. This well-written book is an eye-opening look into a multiethnic world hitherto imagined but insufficiently described.""—B. M. Gough, Choice “Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves demonstrates that indigenous peoples in Alaska engaged capitalism and colonialism on several levels and were not simply overwhelmed by them. Alaskan workers built alliances that had an important impact on and legacy for Southeast Alaska—a history that deserves to be remembered.”—Chris Friday, author of Organizing Asian-American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870–1942 “Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves paints a picture of an Alaska with a racially diversified population . . . and offers a refreshing view of women in the workplace and in labor organizing. This book is really a fascinating narrative, and it fills an important niche in the history of Alaska, the fishing and canning industries in the West, and the labor movement.”—Roberta Ulrich, author of Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River

Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves demonstrates that indigenous peoples in Alaska engaged capitalism and colonialism on several levels and were not simply overwhelmed by it. Alaskan workers built alliances that had an important impact and legacy for southeast Alaska--a history that deserves to be remembered. --Chris Friday, author of Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942 Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves paints a picture of an Alaska with a racially diversified population . . . and offers a refreshing view of women in the workplace and in labor organizing. This book is really a fascinating narrative, and it fills an important niche in the history of Alaska, the fishing and canning industries in the West, and the labor movement. --Roberta Ulrich, author of Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River

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Diane J. Purvis taught cultural history at Alaska Pacific University for twenty-five years. She is the author of The Drive of Civilization: The Stikine Forest versus Americanism.  

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