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    The creation of Seattle and the displacement of those who built itFrom 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 forceconsisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrantsmunicipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of their historical presence in the city.Tracing histories from unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses, and so-called slums,Seattle from the Marginsshows how migrant laborers worked alongside each other, competed over jobs, and forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical presence of marginalized groups and asserting their significanceinthe development of the city, Megan Asaka offers a deeper understanding of Seattle'scomplex past.

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