While taking a critical look at the labor and social issues related to timber, the story of labor, immigration, and development around the San Francisco Bay region is told through the lens of an archaeological case study of a major player of the timber industry between 1885 and 1920. Timber, Sail, and Rail recounts the mill operations and broadly examines its intersections with other industries, such as shipping, brick manufacture, rail companies, lime production, and other lesser enterprises. Three seasons of archaeological fieldwork, as well as ethnography and regional archival work, are examined to emphasize technological and labor components at the historic Loma Prieta mill.
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Although archaeologists have investigated logging sites for several decades, rarely has this work found publication or broader contextualization. In Timber, Sail, and Rail, the author does just this. This book connects the technological and labor histories, and firmly situates archaeological investigations at the Loma Prieta Mill within the regional contexts of immigration and extractive industry. Paul White, University of Nevada, Reno
List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables
vi
Acknowledgments
xi
Preface
xiii
Introduction. The Industrial Landscape of Timber
1
(30)
Chapter 1 Logging History in the San Francisco Bay Area
31
(35)
Chapter 2 The Immigration Mosaic of the West
66
(30)
Chapter 3 Laboring at Loma Prieta
96
(16)
Chapter 4 Archaeology at Loma Prieta Mill
112
(26)
Chapter 5 Artifacts: A Window to Life at the Mill
138
(27)
Conclusion. Reading Ethnicity and Class
165
(15)
Glossary
180
(5)
References
185
(15)
Index
200
Marco Meniketti is a Professor and senior archaeologist at San Jose State University in California. He has received the Vogel Prize from the Society for Industrial Archeology and the SJSU College of Social Science award for Excellence in Teaching. From 201720 he served as Chair of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology.
