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Author Kaunonen, Gary, author.

Title Community in conflict : a working-class history of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy / Gary Kaunonen and Aaron Goings.

Publication Info. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index.
Contents Context -- Community -- Immigrants -- Troublemakers -- Organization -- Union -- Company -- Tragedy -- Fire!? -- Cave-in.
Summary "A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received national attention and garnered the support of luminaries in organized labor like Mother Jones, John Mitchell, Clarence Darrow, and Charles Moyer. The hope of victory was overshadowed, however, by violent incidents like the shooting of striking workers and their family members, and the bitterness of a community divided. No other event came to symbolize or memorialize the strike more than the Italian Hall tragedy, in which dozens of workers and working-class children died. In Community in Conflict, the efforts of working people to gain a voice on the job and in their community through their unions, and the efforts of employers to crush those unions, take center stage. Previously untapped historical sources such as labor spy reports, union newspapers, coded messages, and artifacts shine new light on this epic, and ultimately tragic, period in American labor history."--Publisher's website.
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Language English.
Subject Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914.
Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913.
Italian Hall Disaster (Calumet, Michigan : 1913)
Strikes and lockouts -- Miners -- Michigan -- Calumet -- History -- 20th century.
Strikes and lockouts -- Miners.
Michigan -- Calumet.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Calumet -- History -- 20th century.
Copper mines and mining.
Working class -- Michigan -- Calumet -- History -- 20th century.
Working class.
Calumet (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Copper Miners' Strike (Michigan : 1913-1914)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Goings, Aaron, author.
Added Title Working-class history of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy
Other Form: Print version: Community in conflict. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013] 9781611860931 (DLC) 2012041056 (OCoLC)818327269
ISBN 9781628960389 (electronic book)
1628960388 (electronic book)
9781609173852 (electronic book)
1609173856 (electronic book)
9781628950380
1628950382
9781611860931 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1611860938 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Music No. MWT11417718