Working

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Working

• The changing Economy of the Pacific Northwest

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Working in the Pacific NW at the turn of the 20th
century

• Lumber
• Mining
• Sheep and cattle raising
• Wheat farming and other agriculture
• Fishing

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Superior Coal Co. miners
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1902 Oregon sheepherders
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Mechanization of farming
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Larger farms need worker gangs only at harvest
time
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Moro, OR, harvest hands
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Skykomish Lumber Co., c. 1908
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Hammond Lumber Co.
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fishing
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Economic models

• Primary sector extraction of raw materials
• Secondary sector manufacturing
• Tertiary sector services e.g. management,
  knowledge, science

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How things have changed