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.

• List of photographs, maps, tables, charts, or other illustrative materialsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Work of Trees2.  Common Labor, Common Lands3. A ChanceInterlude: Organic Networks4. The Winter Workscape: Industrializing with Ice5. The Body as Cheap Nature6. The Lumberjack Problem7. Half-Wild FolkEpilogue: Land, Labor, and Local HistoryBibliographyEndnotes

“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

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.

• List of photographs, maps, tables, charts, or other illustrative materialsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Work of Trees2.  Common Labor, Common Lands3. A ChanceInterlude: Organic Networks4. The Winter Workscape: Industrializing with Ice5. The Body as Cheap Nature6. The Lumberjack Problem7. Half-Wild FolkEpilogue: Land, Labor, and Local HistoryBibliographyEndnotes

“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

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.

• List of photographs, maps, tables, charts, or other illustrative materialsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Work of Trees2.  Common Labor, Common Lands3. A ChanceInterlude: Organic Networks4. The Winter Workscape: Industrializing with Ice5. The Body as Cheap Nature6. The Lumberjack Problem7. Half-Wild FolkEpilogue: Land, Labor, and Local HistoryBibliographyEndnotes

“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