Men of Good Timber: An Archaeological Investigation of Labor in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Author(s): Aaron Howe
Year: 2015
Summary
Questions of labor and everyday life have been commonplace in archaeology. At Coalwood, a cordwood camp that operated from 1901-1912 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, these issues become especially important since labor experienced a dramatic transformation when the camp shifted from housing a large number of male laborers to being organized by individual households. In this paper I use archaeological evidence to examine the social relations these laborers were engaged in that produced and reproduced their everyday life as well as the broader patterns of capitalistic production. In doing so, I hope to show how a focus on labor helps to explicate the very workings of capitalism.
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Men of Good Timber: An Archaeological Investigation of Labor in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Aaron Howe. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 433971)
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Keywords
General
Capitalism
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Industry
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Labor
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Early 20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 209