The history of labor in Oregon is a history of Oregonians. From

wrangling a thresher to turn out each year’s wheat harvest to wrestling

a new computer program to grind out each week’s status report,

work occupies, sustains, and to some extent even defines us. The

equipment and the tasks may have changed over the years, but the

can-do attitude of Oregonians remains. The following pages contain

an exploration of how these tasks and equipment have changed—a

history of how Oregonians have worked in the one-hundred and

fifty years Oregon has been a state