"The Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth century until World War II. The book serves as a hidden history for a region frequently identified with conservatism, rescuing these working-class activists from obscurity and placing them at the center of southwest Washington's history."--Back cover

1900-1999, History, Labor movement, Labor movement Washington (State), Western History 20th century, Mouvement ouvrier Washington (Ouest) Histoire 20e siècle, Radicalism, Radicalism Washington (State), Western History 20th century, Radicalisme Washington (Ouest) Histoire 20e siècle, Socialism, Socialism Washington (State), Western History 20th ce

Introduction

1. The Gillnet wars
2. The Aberdeen outrage
3. Red finn halls
4. The Aberdeen free speech fight
5. The war of Grays Harbor
6. Moving day in Raymond
7. "The home defender" Albert Johnson's war on radicals and immigrants
8. Criminal syndicalism : The law as a weapon of class war
9. Class war violence : Centralia 1919
10. Fellow worker William McKay
11. Shingle weavers and the six-hour day
12. Proletarian novels
13. Women who fought : radical Finnish American women on the Red Coast
14. Willapa longshoremen and the big strike
15. "on the front trench picket lines " Communist lumber workers in the Spanish civil war Conclusion