Portland, Oregon, has been in the news in 2020-21 as a centre of the protests which followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This lavishly illustrated book, however, looks at an earlier period of the city’s remarkable history, when the region and its outskirts developed at an astounding pace as a centre of the American shipbuilding industry; by the end of 1943 it employed 150,000 people, a third of them women. This achievement was the work of an industrialist without experience in shipbuilding, and in an urban area 100 miles inland, which had no previous involvement in the construction of large ships.
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