What happened to the loggers of America’s northeast when lumber companies moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did communities continue to create value and meaning in these marginal lands? Jason Newton’s Cutover Capitalism provides a new perspective on the process of industrialization in America through the study of rural workers in a cutover landscape—specifically, the northern forest of eastern North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Justin Hargett caught up with Jason recently to discuss the book.
