Cutover Capitalism

The Industrialization of the Northern Forest

Jason L. Newton

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West Virginia University Press
31 October 2024

Regional & national history; Political ideologies; Industrial relations; The environment; Timber & wood processing

Series: Histories of Capitalism and the Environment

What 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? Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest provides a new perspective on the process of industrialization in America through the study of rural workers in a cutover landscape.

Back 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.

Cutover Capitalism is 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.

By: Jason L. Newton
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781959000297
ISBN 10: 1959000292
Series: Histories of Capitalism and the Environment
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 31 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jason L. Newton, PhD is an historian of modern America specializing in the history of capitalism, labor, and the environment. He is currently an assistant teaching professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Reviews for Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest

“Blurring the boundary between exploiting trees and exploiting workers, Cutover Capitalism is 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.” — Richard Judd, author of Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England