WHEN LOGGERS WERE GREEN: LUMBER, LABOR, AND CONSERVATION, 1937-1948.

From 1937 to 1948, the International Woodworkers of America challenged the timber industry's forestry practices, attempting to reshape the Northwest's timber industry to work for the sustainability of logging communities and the forest instead of corporate profits. Their activities demonstrate the long history of unions pressing for the environmental agenda of their members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]