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Ditch of dreams : the Cross Florida Barge Canal and the struggle for Florida's future
\"Traces the long standing effort to build a canal across Florida. The book reveals much about competing visions of progress, economic growth, and environmental preservation in the fragile ecosystem of Florida, as well as the 'ins and outs, ' of politics, influence, and power in the Sunshine State. The history of the canal is not just a story of Florida's past, but a compelling lesson for its future.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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'If they can't save the Ocklawaha'
The story of the canal also tells us much about the equally fragile nature of America's political system. Accusations of \"boondoggles\" and \"pork-barrel spending\" continue to resonate as citizens still wrestle with questions raised by large public works projects. In the end, the story of the canal is the story of the Ocklawaha River. [Marjorie Carr] and her allies understood the importance of preserving one of Florida's last free-flowing natural rivers from not only the canal but also from the broader challenges of persistent development. As early as 1965, she warned that \"the Ocklawaha will become a symbol ... whether of man's folly or man's wisdom remains to be seen.\" Marjorie Carr, as usual, put it best in 1996. The effort to save the river is \"not a North Central Florida local issue. The Ocklawaha River is a glorious part of Florida's natural heritage. Floridians should be aware that if they can't save the Ocklawaha they have little chance of saving any of the remaining lovely wild places in Florida.\"
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'If they can't save the Ocklawaha ...'
The story of the canal also tells us much about the equally fragile nature of America's political system. Accusations of \"boondoggles\" and \"pork-barrel spending\" continue to resonate as citizens still wrestle with questions raised by large public works projects. In the end, the story of the canal is the story of the Ocklawaha River. [Marjorie Carr] and her allies understood the importance of preserving one of Florida's last free-flowing natural rivers from not only the canal but also from the broader challenges of persistent development. As early as 1965, she warned that \"the Ocklawaha will become a symbol ... whether of man's folly or man's wisdom remains to be seen.\" Marjorie Carr, as usual, put it best in 1996. The effort to save the river is \"not a North Central Florida local issue. The Ocklawaha River is a glorious part of Florida's natural heritage. Floridians should be aware that if they can't save the Ocklawaha they have little chance of saving any of the remaining lovely wild places in Florida.\"
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Steven Noll and David Tegeder: Conflicts continue while the fate of the St. Johns and Ocklawaha hang in the balance
The story of the canal also tells us much about the equally fragile nature of America's political system. Accusations of \"boondoggles\" and \"pork barrel spending\" continue to resonate as citizens still wrestle with questions raised by large public works projects. In the end, the story of the canal is the story of the Ocklawaha River. [Marjorie Carr] and her allies understood the importance of preserving one of Florida's last free flowing natural rivers from not only the canal but also from the broader challenges of persistent development. As early as 1965, she warned that \"the Ocklawaha will become a symbol...whether of man's folly or man's wisdom remains to be seen.\" Marjorie Carr, as usual, put it best in 1996. The effort to save the river is \"not a north central Florida local issue. The Ocklawaha River is a glorious part of Florida's natural heritage. Floridians should be aware that if they can't save the Ocklawaha they have little chance of saving any of the remaining lovely wild places in Florida.\"
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Steven Noll and David Tegeder: Conflicts continue while the fate of the St. Johns and Ocklawaha hang in the balance
The story of the canal also tells us much about the equally fragile nature of America's political system. Accusations of \"boondoggles\" and \"pork barrel spending\" continue to resonate as citizens still wrestle with questions raised by large public works projects. In the end, the story of the canal is the story of the Ocklawaha River. [Marjorie Carr] and her allies understood the importance of preserving one of Florida's last free flowing natural rivers from not only the canal but also from the broader challenges of persistent development. As early as 1965, she warned that \"the Ocklawaha will become a symbol...whether of man's folly or man's wisdom remains to be seen.\" Marjorie Carr, as usual, put it best in 1996. The effort to save the river is \"not a north central Florida local issue. The Ocklawaha River is a glorious part of Florida's natural heritage. Floridians should be aware that if they can't save the Ocklawaha they have little chance of saving any of the remaining lovely wild places in Florida.\"
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Prisoners of the pines: Debt peonage in the southern turpentine industry, 1900-1930
Fundamentally important to the New South's industrial development, naval stores workers remained mired in brutally coercive and exploitative labor conditions long after the ostensible establishment of a southern \"free labor\" society. Historians have long considered peonage as a vestige of antebellum slavery, but debt bondage was a common practice of contemporary extractive industries throughout the world. By examining patterns of production in one of the New South's largest industries, this study analyzes how the region, the culture, and the exigencies of a modern, yet undercapitalized economy encouraged exceptionally ruthless forms of labor allocation and control. The very structure of turpentine production perpetuated a pecking order of indebtedness that led manufacturers to exact as much as possible from a predominantly African-American workforce. Perennially underfinanced as it tried to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive marketplace, naval stores remained enslaved to the traditions and means of production of the antebellum era. Thus, turpentine failed to follow a path of development--characterized by mechanization and labor militancy, for example--that had transformed the lives of workers in other southern extractive industries. This study explores the ways in which manufacturers depended on a variety of legal and extralegal mechanisms to secure a reliable workforce in the pines. Taking advantage of the isolated circumstances of production, turpentine operators counted on advances from the company commissary, and then the threat of violence, to hold workers in debt servitude. Moreover, southern laws enabled them to manipulate the criminal justice system to either recruit or retain workers should they manage to escape from the camps. Thus, courtrooms often resembled marketplaces where employers could \"buy\" a so-called criminal's debts. The law was an unpredictable ally, however, for sheriffs and magistrates had their own interests that occasionally clashed with the employer's concerns. Another surprising feature that comes to light in a close examination of coercive labor relations is that blacks were not the only \"prisoners of the pines.\" Labor shortages also encouraged the use of European contract workers whose presence in the camps underscores the point that postbellum legal codes were more a function of labor control than racial control.
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