Seattle from the Margins
Asaka, Megan![Seattle from the Margins](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/429/42996946/CHSBZCOP0342996946.jpg)
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor force¿consisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants¿municipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces t...