Jason L. Newton
Jason L. Newton
Assistant Teaching Professor - Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
American Logging Capital and Technology Through Time and Space
October 30, 2025 - 12:00 PM
Drawing from his book Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest (West Virginia University Press, 2024), Dr. Newton will discuss how logging technology and labor organization changed over time as investment opportunities moved to different parts of America. The talk will highlight the technology used in the northeast during the height of long-log lumbering in the 1900s and 1910s showing how and why this technology was cheap, labor intensive, but often had less detrimental impact on forest land.
Speaker Biography
Jason L. Newton – Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dr. Newton is an assistant teaching professor in the department of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he teaches classes on labor, capitalism, and the environment. His book Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest (West Virginia University Press, 2024) was a runner-up for the 2025 George Perkins Marsh award for the best book in environmental history presented by the American Society for Environmental History.